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  • Is ethnicity an issue in education?

    Is ethnicity an issue in education?

    This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 7 March 2025 in which Matt Bromley argues that ethnic attainment gaps are the result of intersectional factors… A multi-ethnic team of academics from Durham and Birmingham universities have found that poverty and special educational needs (SEND), rather than ethnicity… Read more

  • Inclusive planning, teaching, and assessment

    This is an edited version of an article that first appeared in SecEd Magazine on 5 March 2025. Over the course of five articles, I’m going to explore inclusion and belonging, focusing on three areas of professional practice to help us achieve this in our classrooms. Those areas are: The 3Rs of inclusive lesson planning… Read more

  • Is Ofsted on the right track?

    Is Ofsted on the right track?

    This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 9 February 2025 in which Matt Bromley cautiously welcomes Ofsted‘s focus on inclusion… Earlier this month, Ofsted published proposals for a new system of inspection for schools and other education settings. Partly in response to the tragic death of headteacher… Read more

  • Why School Doesn’t Work for Every Child

    Why School Doesn’t Work for Every Child

    When I started writing Why School Doesn’t Work for Every Child in the spring of 2024, I did so out of anger and frustration. In the UK, where I live and work, 4.3 million children were living in relative poverty – the highest number on record. 3.6 million children were living in absolute poverty, 2.2… Read more

  • Is the SEND system broken?

    Is the SEND system broken?

    This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 28 January 2025 in which Matt Bromley argues the SEND system isn’t working and needs urgent reform… There is growing consensus among policymakers, professionals, and parents that the SEND system is buckling under the weight of growing demand, funding pressures,… Read more

  • Why every day in school must count

    Why every day in school must count

    This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 18 September 2024 in which Matt Bromley argues every day in school must count… The Labour government elected on 4 July acknowledged the need to transform the education system so that young people got the opportunities they deserved. In an… Read more

  • Effective school governance: 3 Evaluation and assessment

    Effective school governance: 3 Evaluation and assessment

    This is the third in a 3-part series first published in SecEd Magazine. Read part 1 and part 2. So far in this series, we’ve explored the features of effective governance and governing body structures. In the final part, we will explore two aspects to governors’ evaluative role: Evaluating governance: Self-review The new governance guide… Read more

  • Effective school governance: 2 Making use of link governors

    This is the second in a 3-part series first published in SecEd Magazine. Read part 1. In the first of these three articles on effective governance, I explained that school leaders need to develop good working relationships with governors, especially the chairs of the various governors’ committees through which important information can be fed, and the… Read more

  • Effective school governance: 1 Duties, processes and structures

    This is the first in a 3-part series first published in SecEd Magazine. The new Department for Education governance guides, which recently replaced the governance handbook, serve as the primary source of governance information. There are two versions, one for maintained schools and one for academies (DfE, 2024). In this series, for ease and concision,… Read more

  • The ABC of Equity 5: C is for community

    This is the fifth in a 5-part series first published in SecEd Magazine. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, and part 4 here. This is the final instalment of my five-part series in which I am sharing my ABC of equity in education. A stands for attendance, B stands for behaviours,… Read more

  • The ABC of Equity 4: B is for behaviours

    This is the fourth in a 5-part series first published in SecEd Magazine. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here. In this five-part series for SecEd, I’m sharing a road-map for inclusion – a way to build more equity in education so that schools might become engines for social change. Part… Read more

  • The ABC of Equity 3: The push and pull of school

    This is the third in a 5-part series first published in SecEd Magazine. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. In part two of this series, I explained that disadvantaged learners are more than twice as likely to be absent from school as their non-disadvantaged peers. I also shared five factors that lead to lower… Read more

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