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President on a mission If a handshake is a reliable indication of personality, then the NAHT is on to a winner this year with its president, Steve Iredale. In a year which looks as though it could be one of the most challenging in the association's history, the Barnsley head's greeting is both vigorous and direct. 22 May 2012
Guide to the Public Accounts Committee report Susan Young gives us a ten minute guide to the key points of the Public Accounts Committee report. 11 May 2012
Guide to the new school funding system Susan Young gives us a ten minute guide to the key points of the Government's 'next steps' paper on school funding reform. 28 March 2012
Professor Ben Levin on School Leadership Susan Young reports on her interview with Professor Ben Levin of Toronto University in advance of his address at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning's Annual Lecture. 23 March 2012
Education leaders' guide to...2012 and beyond Major changes coming up in the next year include the new curriculum and implementation of the new Ofsted school inspection framework in January, as well as the new schools admissions and appeals codes and major changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage. 19 December 2011
Learning together - Dorothy Stringer and BISS The partnership between Dorothy Stringer, a 1,600-pupil comprehensive, and BISS, a private language school, is simple and probably unique. During the holidays, it uses the school premises to teach English to European teenagers. 19 October 2011
Quick Guide to...the New Ofsted Framework The new Ofsted inspection framework comes into effect in January 2012. This is a quick view of the points which stand out. It is not comprehensive and more detailed analysis will follow. 30 September 2011
Education Leader's Guide to the Queen's Speech Susan Young provides a summary of the key education issues outlined in the Queen's Speech on Monday 25th may 2010 23 August 2011
Leaders' Guide to...new Teaching Standards The new standards replace the existing standards for Qualified Teacher Status and the Core professional standards previously published by the Training and Development Agency for Schools. 15 July 2011
Leaders' Guide to...'Prevent' terrorism strategy The Prevent strategy has been running since 2007 but has been heavily refocused after a consultation which began last November found it flawed. It says the programme had confused promoting integration with preventing terrorism, did not confront extremist ideology and sometimes even funded the extremist organisations it was intended to confront. 09 June 2011
Leader's Guide to the Admissions Consultation NAHT provides a brief summary of the key aspects of the governments consulation on school admissions. 28 May 2011
Leaders' Guide to PM and Capability consultation The Government announced its intention to shorten and simplify the current regulations on teacher capability in its White Paper in December. It has now published its consultation document, in which it is inviting comment on a number of specific proposals around performance management and capability. 25 May 2011
Why PISA (but not just PISA) matters Anna Brychan looks at new research into the KS3 'dip'. Address originally given to the Institute of Welsh Affairs conference on 12 April 05 May 2011
Financial Ed in Secondary Schools - Catch 22 Problems and possible solutions of provision amidst the shifting sands of budgets and ratings 26 April 2011
Leaders' guide to the Ofsted Report April 2011 The Education Committee have been hearing evidence about Ofsted since November, and included a seminar with inspectors and a visit to Finland a nation without inspectors which rapidly becoming an exemplar for Government education policy part of the evidence 15 April 2011
Leaders' guide to the New Funding Formula The announcement by the Department for Education that it is starting a consultation on reforming the funding formula is something of a milestone, and has been welcomed by the NAHT 13 April 2011
Education Leaders' Guide to the spending review The Review of Educational Capital has just been published, slightly later than James anticipated, as a result of his desire to test the emerging recommendations with as wide a group of interested parties as possible. The review team road-tested their ideas on a rebuild of a Doncaster secondary school destroyed by fire. 11 April 2011
Leaders' guide to the Bew Interim Report The government has today published the long awaited interim or progress report from the Bew Review. As expected, this is a summary of the evidence rather than recommendations for the replacement system. The question before us is, does this give us confidence that the panel is moving in the right direction; that the evidence supports, even demands, real change? 05 April 2011
Leaders' guide to the Early Years Review The Government's education revolution continues, as new legislation makes its way through Parliament, the delayed SEN Green Paper is finally published and reviews of the curriculum, KS2 testing and early years continue. 01 April 2011
National Curriculum way beyond just knowledge Tim Oates, Chair of the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review, discusses the review's direction. 01 April 2011

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Extreme Heads: Teaching in the ''lion's den''Stieve Butler, head of education and training at three prisons Cookham Wood and Huntercombe Young Offenders Institutions and the Josephine Butler Unit (an equivalent for girls), talks to Steve Smethurst about the full range of learning difficulties associated with young offenders. 25/10/2010
Shakespearean tragedy in Southwark schoolYou would hope that things would have changed in Southwark over the past 500 years. But apparently not. Shakespearean tragedy still abounds. Decima Francis knows this all too well. She once trod the boards at the National Theatre as an actress, but has since taken up the challenge of helping black boys excluded from mainstream education and is now head teacher at the From Boyhood to Manhood (FBMF) foundation. 21/09/2010
''The worst school in Britain?''Ian Johnson took over Marlowe Academy in 2004 as head teacher of what many people considered to be the 'worst school in Britain'. The Ramsgate School was synonymous with failure; the BBC noting that the school had a truly shocking record: just 4% of pupils managed five GCSEs at grade C or above last year [2003]. This was not a blip. It was 4% the year before and 4% the year before that. 09/07/2010
Extreme Heads: Challenges at a Psychiatric Hospital SchoolJohn Ivens is head teacher and an educational psychologist at the Bethlem and Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in South London, where he has led the school for the past seven years. 25/06/2010
The challenges faced at a hospital schoolThe paediatrics department here specialises in gastro, plastics and general surgical, says Jude Chalk, the headteacher at the Royal Free Hospital Children's School (RFHCS) in north London. Her easy use of medical terminology shows how thoroughly immersed she is in the worlds of both health and education. 26/04/2010
Dealing with a transient school populationWhen June Foster was laughed at by a careers teacher for saying she wanted to be a teacher, she was determined to succeed. Now an executive headteacher, she has used her fighting spirit at two troubled Newcastle primaries. 24/03/2010