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David Jones
All articles by David Jones
Why FE’s priority must be digital inclusion
Creating the colleges of the future means a focus on delivering digital inclusion and skills, writes David Jones
5 February 2021
‘Everyone in education should have the same new year’s resolution - to end stress-related illness in school’
In 2018, the entire school community must come together to find the solution to the stress-related illnesses so many teachers suffer from, writes one primary head
2 January 2018
‘Christmas is a festival of light. We should celebrate the light that teachers bring into young lives’
When people say, ‘God, why on earth would you want to teach?’ I think to myself, ‘God, why on earth wouldn’t I want to teach?’ explains one teacher
23 December 2017
‘My heart breaks for our education system. But mostly it breaks for the burned-out teachers for whom life will never be the same’
Every year, we lose 150,000 teachers because of work-related stress. For those individuals, life is tainted forever, writes one headteacher
12 December 2017
College mergers are about people, not empire-building
Coleg Cambria boss offers advice for other institutions looking at amalgamation
31 March 2017
‘You somehow imposed your own prejudices on education’ - one primary teacher’s extraordinary open letter to Michael Gove
The most shocking thing about Michael Gove’s reign as education secretary was that one individual was able to change the system so much for the worse, writes this primary teacher
3 March 2017