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Kristina Murkett

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Teachers deserve their long summer holidays

Teachers deserve their long summer holidays
25.07.2025 10

The Spectator

Kristina Murkett

Every boy needs a strong male role model in their life

Every boy needs a strong male role model in their life
11.07.2025 6

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Kristina Murkett

Labour owes it to special needs children to reform SEND

Labour owes it to special needs children to reform SEND
08.07.2025 2

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Kristina Murkett

The biggest reason people aren’t having babies? FOMO

04.07.2025 4

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Kristina Murkett

Education / Bridget Phillipson can’t be trusted to fix Britain’s schools

28.06.2025 4

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Kristina Murkett

Education / Bridget Phillipson can’t be trusted to fix Britain’s schools

28.06.2025 6

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Kristina Murkett

Bridget Phillipson can’t be trusted to fix Britain’s schools

28.06.2025 4

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The sad decline of reading

13.06.2025 20

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Child stars and the curse of Harry Potter

30.05.2025 7

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Kristina Murkett

Bonnie Blue deserves to be cancelled

09.05.2025 10

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Kristina Murkett

Bridget Phillipson’s Ofsted reforms are a mess

29.04.2025 4

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Kristina Murkett

Politics / How Trump could reverse America’s baby bust

26.04.2025 2

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Kristina Murkett

How Trump could reverse America’s baby bust

26.04.2025 6

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Kristina Murkett

In defence of ‘free’ breakfast clubs

23.04.2025 10

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Kristina Murkett

The teachers’ union should be on the side of private schools

17.04.2025 2

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Tablet time / There’s an obvious reason pre-school children are falling behind

16.04.2025 4

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Kristina Murkett

Fixing free childcare would be an easy win for Labour

14.03.2025 10

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Kristina Murkett

In defence of single-sex schools

13.03.2025 10

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Kristina Murkett

Strict schools are sapping the joy out of learning

12.02.2025 90

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Kristina Murkett

Losing faith / How The Traitors betrayed itself

15.01.2025 70

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The problem with ‘diversifying’ the curriculum

As an English teacher, one of my favourite poems to teach, to pupils of almost all ages, is Chinua Achebe’s ‘Vultures’. In the poem, the speaker...

01.01.2025 30

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Kristina Murkett

Labour’s decision to axe Latin lessons is an act of cultural vandalism

The Labour government seems determined to undermine excellence in schools. The Department for Education has announced that from February it will be...

21.12.2024 10

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Kristina Murkett

The hypocrisy of Labour’s plan to solve youth unemployment

The government has today announced a £45 million work drive, with proposed changes to the welfare and out-of-work support systems, in a bid to get...

26.11.2024 40

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Kristina Murkett

Labour’s exam reforms make some sense

In an address to 1,500 school and academy trust leaders, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson last week asked schools to stop focusing solely on...

11.11.2024 1

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Kristina Murkett

Royal Mail is a right royal mess

Benjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two certainties in life: death, and taxes. It turns out there is a third: Royal Mail not...

08.10.2024 20

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Kristina Murkett

Remaking Harry Potter is risky

Few franchises have the cult-like devotion of Harry Potter. One only has to watch the video of hordes of adults counting down the arrival of the...

16.09.2024 1

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Kristina Murkett

Bad line / The UK’s phone signal is infuriatingly poor

As I have been driving across England’s green and pleasant land visiting friends and family this summer, I discovered that the UK’s phone signal is...

02.09.2024 10

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Kristina Murkett

The problem with compulsory GCSE resits

This morning, students up and down across the country will anxiously open up their GCSE results, with local papers publishing photos of glowing...

22.08.2024 2

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Kristina Murkett

Male violence does not take place in a vacuum

There have been lots of reasons to be optimistic this summer: the glorious spectacle of the Olympics; the (relatively) good weather; the Bank of...

17.08.2024 2

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Kristina Murkett

Can we really teach children to spot fake news?

As part of the ongoing review into the primary and secondary school curriculum, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced that children...

13.08.2024 3

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Kristina Murkett