Tackling HBT bullying: three key issues
Tom Middlehurst reflects on a recent event with Stonewall and highlights three areas that schools need to focus on to tackle HBT bullying.
Blog posts by Tom Middlehurst
Tackling homo, bi and transphobic language can be difficult for many teachers… but it’s essential that we do
Tom Middlehurst, Head of Public Affairs SSAT, writes… Back in the summer, I attended a partnership meeting with the LGBT charity Stonewall, and was struck by how little I understood the continued prejudices facing some young gay, lesbian, bi and
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Who owns the curriculum?
Tom Middlehurst asks us to remember that the real curriculum designers are practitioners – they have the biggest influence on the lives of young people.
Pupil premium? It’s personal
Head of PR Tom Middlehurst argues the case for treating young people as individuals to achieve true quality and equity within our education system.
SSAT responds to the Commission on Assessment without Levels
Tom Middlehurst, Head of Public Affairs SSAT, writes… The final report of the Commission on Assessment without Levels was published yesterday, and offers six recommendations based on the Commission’s findings. The main body of the report consists of an explanation
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Why Policy Exchange’s report is about much more than fining secondary schools
Tom Middlehurst, Head of Public Affairs, SSAT writes… Much of today’s commentary and twitter-response to Policy Exchange’s report Crossing the Line has focused on the rights or wrongs of raising a ‘resit levy’ on secondary schools whose students fail to
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Life after levels isn’t rhetoric – it’s happening
Tom Middlehurst, Head of Research SSAT, writes… In the past few weeks I’ve observed a greater volume of discussion around the reality of ‘life after levels’, which will kick in this September: there is excitement, confusion, optimism and anxiety in
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