Education is enveloped by crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since returning in September, we\u2019ve reported on \u201capocalyptic\u201d budget pressures<\/a>, woeful teacher recruitmen<\/a>t (and it was already bad), the biggest attainment gap for a decade<\/a>, a surge in staff deemed suicide risks<\/a>, and impending strikes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will keep exposing these issues so that politicians know about the challenges you face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, as political help looks ever more unlikely, we want our journalism to provide even more value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This means covering some of those big-ticket problems through the lens of potential solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will investigate and explain solutions, provide insight into how accessible they are, present the evidence (or lack of) and, importantly, look at possible limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This has always been part of our journalism. Longer stories, while leading on the issues, have often suggested how to fix the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But our plan now is to commit to solutions-focused stories more regularly, giving them a place alongside our usual news, investigations, analysis, explainers and opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In our last edition before Christmas in 2020, we ran a series looking at the positives schools discovered during the Covid pandemic: online lessons have meant no more lost learning on snow days; attendance at parents\u2019 evenings have risen because the option to attend online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n