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Russell Hobby
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‘Making sex education compulsory in schools will save lives’
... and it will also protect the schools and teachers who teach it
1 March 2017
‘A tutor-proof grammar test can be found next to El Dorado’
Why not spend the £150m earmarked for grammar schools on high-quality early years education, asks NAHT’s general secretary Russell Hobby
9 February 2017
‘Teachers are constantly forced to fill the void as the gaps in children’s mental health services grow’
It is a credit to teachers that they fill in the gaps to tackle intractable problems; it is not a credit to the system they work within that they must, writes one heads’ leader
11 January 2017
Autumn Statement: ‘With early education in retreat across the country, the chancellor has found £50m of new money for grammars’
If he cares about social mobility, Phillip Hammond should know to invest what spare cash there is into early years, writes one heads’ leader
23 November 2016
‘Grammar schools are to education what homeopathy is to medicine’
Henceforth any claims to ‘evidence-based education policy’ will be met with a weary sigh from the profession, writes one heads’ leader
8 September 2016
‘Hanging children’s prospects and teachers’ careers on these poorly designed and implemented tests is not fair’
The government must work with the profession to design a fair, coherent and meaningful system of assessment and accountability, writes the leader of one head’s union
1 September 2016