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Education

Should teachers be allowed to work from home?

Teacher recruitment and retention have been associated with the word ‘crisis’ since I joined the profession thirty years ago. But Daniel Kebede’s idea to give teachers a day each week to work and ‘mark from home’ is not the answer.

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COVID-19 Education

The legacy of Covid will stay with children for life

Five years ago in March 2020, schools fell silent as Covid-19 swept across the world. At first, there was a tinge of excitement among some students and staff; it was as if, perhaps, we had been told that the whole country was going to be snowed in for six weeks. 

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Free Speech

Teachers’ union seeks to change definition of transphobia

Trans lobbyists want the term to go ‘above and beyond legal compliance’
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Sex and Gender

Teaching unions shouldn’t be defining ‘transphobia’

A year of disrupted schooling means there are plenty of issues facing our schools right now. But delegates at last week’s National Education Union conference were more interested in another subject: developing a new – and presumably beefed-up – definition of transphobia.