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  • Curriculum change readiness checklist

    Curriculum change readiness checklist

    Are you ready for curriculum change? Understand what you should be thinking about now to help prepare for and adapt to the upcoming changes.

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  • The C&A review: What providers should be thinking about now

    The C&A review: What providers should be thinking about now

    What do teachers and schools expect from England’s curriculum and assessment review? How will they react to proposed changes? In this blog, Director Sam Derby outlines some of the drivers and predictions for key changes, and what providers should be doing to prepare. 

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  • Whole-System Reform: Key Strategies to Overhaul Support for SEND 

    Whole-System Reform: Key Strategies to Overhaul Support for SEND 

    Ahead of our Education Insights special issue on SEND and Inclusion, Sam Derby talks with Amanda Wright, Head of Whole School SEND at nasen, to get their perspective.

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  • Improving Literacy and Oracy Outcomes: a MAT’s Story

    Improving Literacy and Oracy Outcomes: a MAT’s Story

    Shareen Wilkinson, Executive Director of Education at LEO Academy Trust, talks with Keira Moulding about LEO’s journey to improve literacy outcomes.

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  • AI and Literacy: How AI can enhance reader engagement

    AI and Literacy: How AI can enhance reader engagement

    Pickatale’s Sigbjørn Dugal and Emily Guille-Marrett spoke to Sam Derby about how AI can enhance reader engagement and literacy.

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  • Making Change: A Greener Curriculum

    Making Change: A Greener Curriculum

    Sustainability subject expert Claire Gilbert talks with Paul Turner from the teacher collective, Ministry of Eco Education and Jamie Agombar from the student-driven Students Organising for Sustainability UK about the outlook for climate education in the curriculum review.

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  • The Industry View: Education Stakeholders Must Be at the Heart of Reform

    The Industry View: Education Stakeholders Must Be at the Heart of Reform

    Peter Doyle is Policy Manager at BESA. Here he provides an industry perspective on the curriculum review.

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  • The Curriculum and Assessment Review: What the Experts Want to See

    The Curriculum and Assessment Review: What the Experts Want to See

    For issue 5 of Education Insights, we spoke to 13 education stakeholders about their ambitions and aspirations for England’s curriculum and assessment review.

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  • Preparing for a digital future: the legacy of ‘Digital Pioneers’ 

    Preparing for a digital future: the legacy of ‘Digital Pioneers’ 

    In this series, CTO and Director of Oriel Square, John Deans, looks at what we should be doing to prepare young people for a digital future.

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  • The EPI Manifesto Review: is Labour ready to tackle key challenges in education?

    The EPI Manifesto Review: is Labour ready to tackle key challenges in education?

    With there likely to be little room for manoeuvre in terms of the education budget following the result of July’s general election, the debate about where and how to focus any spending is well underway.

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  • Education at Scale: The Research Picture

    Education at Scale: The Research Picture

    Hannie Kirkham and Sam Derby look at recent research into education at scale to identify emerging trends.

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  • Education at Scale: Scaling Reach Through Solutions with Impact

    Education at Scale: Scaling Reach Through Solutions with Impact

    For Ark, scaling reach hasn’t always meant adding schools; the organisation wants to have a much wider impact. Caroline Doherty talks about growth in trusts, the need for consolidation and codification, and providing school solutions at scale.

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