The Staffroom - opinion

How to embed ED&I into your everyday teaching and learning

All learners can benefit from an equality, diversity and inclusion mindset from their teachers, explains Faisal Arif. All it...

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Faisal Arif
The Staffroom - opinion

Remembering Henrietta. Why every learner should know about a silenced contribution to medical science

After this summer’s development, everyone should learn about the most important contributor to science you’ve never heard of, says...

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Gail Pringle
The Staffroom - opinion

Why every college should have a literacy lead

Staff have truly engaged with driving literacy up across the curriculum, says Danielle Long. Imagine what a national network...

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Danielle Long
The Staffroom - opinion

How we’re rethinking teacher development for sustainability

Education for sustainability starts with how we train and develop our teachers, writes Charlie Simmans

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Charlie Simmans
The Staffroom - opinion

Colleges must embrace their central role in making apprenticeships more inclusive

A rise in apprenticeship popularity must be matched by increased efforts to make them more accessible to neurodivergent learners,...

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Mesay E. Gashaw
The Staffroom - opinion

Local collaboration puts equality and diversity on a stronger footing

Haroon Bashir explains how working with colleagues across colleges has been crucial to improving equality and diversity provision across...

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Haroon Bashir
The Staffroom - opinion

FE can lead us out of the permacrisis if we work together

The sector’s pandemic response revealed that it can do so much more that sustain a not-so-new normal, writes Katie...

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Katie Shaw
The Staffroom - opinion

AI won’t kill creativity. It can prompt more students to discover theirs

The best way to mitigate against learners using AI to cheat is to ensure there are tools that use...

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Pamela Dale
The Staffroom - opinion

What we really mean when we talk about likeable teachers

Debates about whether teachers need to be likeable never get anywhere because the idea of likeability itself misses the...

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David Murray