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The prominence of learning for sustainability in Scottish teachers’ professional standards is ‘world leading’, so why isn’t more made of this?

Artificial intelligence offers the prospect of more nuance in answers and sophisticated tests of pupils’ knowledge and analytical capabilities, says headteacher John Rutter

School league tables are an anachronism when schools do so much more than put students through exams, says John Rutter

A 21st-century curriculum should not be overreliant on exam data as an indicator of progress, says this secondary head

The ‘gold standard’ of five Highers is a narrow and elitist benchmark of success and should not be used to pass judgement on a student’s achievements or those of their school, argues John Rutter

Comics, once viewed as ‘the death of reading’ and frowned upon in the classroom, have now been shown to enhance memory and may actually be a more effective teaching tool than a textbook. Head John Rutter explains why he can’t get enough of them