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Oliver Beach
All articles by Oliver Beach
‘Why I support more league table data, not less’
We need heads and parents to have as much information about successful schools as is possible, writes one economics teacher
8 December 2015
‘Parachuting in teachers from inner cities to transform schools with completely different contexts is a very risky strategy’
One high-profile teacher is uncertain about the education secretary’s new plans for a National Teaching Service
3 November 2015
Why gay teachers must be out at school: one educator’s extraordinary personal story
19 October 2015
‘Trusting the profession to do its job: the only way to deal with workload and stop teachers quitting’
Politicians’ disregard for the profession manifests itself in their inability to let classroom professionals get on with it, writes one former Tough Young Teacher
22 September 2015
Opinion: ‘Why must we choose between risking criticism for not working hard enough or watching our work-life balance vanish?’
One Tough Young Teacher calls for the workload issue to become not one of how hard teachers work, but how smart
2 September 2015
Educating Cardiff, episode one: ‘A clarion call for educators to step up, paratroop into schools and share best practice’
25 August 2015