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16 May 2026

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Jessica Hill

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Schools should ‘shut up’ about food handouts, says social mobility chair

Alun Francis also fears Ofsted’s focus on inclusion will lead to schools having to 'bend over backwards to ...

Jessica Hill

13 Jun 2025 | Schools
Features

A new hope for University Technical Colleges?

When University Technical Colleges launched in 2010, they were hailed as the solution needed to propel ...

Jessica Hill

24 Mar 2025
Features

The schools waging war on smartphones

As concern mounts over the impact of smartphones, Jessica Hill investigates what being a ‘phone free ...

Jessica Hill

12 Dec 2024
Features

Sharing the load with education’s newest teachers

After feeling weighed down by the demands of school life in Australia, Yalinie Vigneswaran from Ambition ...

Jessica Hill

9 Dec 2024 | Teacher training and development
Features

Phoenix flying in to launch SEND classrooms

Could a trial in a London borough that supports special schools to set up provision in mainstream schools ...

Jessica Hill

2 Dec 2024
Features

Twinkl – from little star to master of the edtech universe

Founder Jonathan Seaton tells how his wife’s frustration at poor teaching materials birthed an edtech ...

Jessica Hill

25 Nov 2024 | Education technology
Features

Why flexible working for teachers can bring the best of all worlds

When English teacher Gareth Edwards broke his ankle, attempting a karate kick dance move at the school ...

Jessica Hill

18 Nov 2024
Features

Scarred by Grenfell but finding strength in adversity

Principal Anna Jordan says her pupils draw from values of fearlessness despite the 2017 tragedy ...

Jessica Hill

11 Nov 2024
Features

School absence epidemic gives Labour a NEET problem

Kids dropping out of the school system are now turning into NEETs, and there’s not enough lower-level ...

Jessica Hill

21 Oct 2024
Features

Leora Cruddas, The Confederation of School Trusts

The Confederation of School Trusts leader Leora Cruddas tells how teaching in apartheid-era South Africa ...

Jessica Hill

14 Oct 2024 | Profile