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ECTs - Summer term five

05 June 2026

Congratulations, ECTs! For those of you who are ECT1, you are nearly halfway through. ECT2s, this is the beginning of your goodbye to the ECF, and soon you can call yourself a fully-fledged teacher!

Spend ten minutes talking to a soon-to-be graduate about their job search and you might come away convinced that a university degree has become a confidence trick.

Reading Alan Milburn’s interim findings on young people who are not in education, employment or training, I felt a real sense of recognition.

A badly designed door can make intelligent people look stupid.

Universities are often seen as institutions that begin their work at 18. But if we are serious about social mobility, opportunity and national productivity, our responsibility begins much earlier – in the first five years of life.

Something significant is happening in childcare policy in England.

Hey there Tappers! The final half term of 2025/26 academic year has begun!

A statutory body north of the border has suggested that there is, at best, mixed evidence as to the possible efficacy of a comprehensive restriction on children using online services.

At the heart of Labour’s historic mission is to provide equality of opportunity: to break the link between someone’s background and their future success.

The University of York's Restore Britain society is the first to be ratified at a Russell Group institution.

In 1970, psychologists and psychiatrists were invited to a lecture on “Mathematical Game Theory as Applied to Physician Education.”

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Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 22 May 2026 Welcome to Education Eye, a regular update detailing the policies and stories happening in UK education, compiled by Steve Besley. What's happened this week? Important stories across the board: This week’s...

The purpose of school inspection is what it does

Gear change needed but universities are still engines of social mobility

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The problem with classroom consistency

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Why we must address education-business links to solve the NEET crisis

Ecological psychology and the classroom

The earliest years may be the most important education policy of all

The school-based nurseries programme could be Labour’s early years legacy – but there are real problems with it

More on TLRs, revision sessions PLUS optimism for the summer term

Scottish watchdog warns that social media bans ‘risk shifting responsibility away from platforms and onto children’

We must focus on widening access to postgraduate degrees

The first Restore Britain university societies are being created

The Dr Fox Effect: Charisma, subject knowledge and the curse of expertise

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