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26 June 2024

  • Tutor teaching private lessons to a young child.

    The booming world of specialised private education for the super-rich

  • illustration composite with children looking at a teacher in front of a whiteboard and an apprentice

    Life under Labour
    Labour wants to create opportunities for all. Can its education pledges narrow the divide?

25 June 2024

  • Sophie Wilkinson

    Germany has come clean about the state of its public toilets. Why can’t Britain?

    Sophie Wilkinson
    The country’s first School Toilet Summit was held this month to improve public facilities. Instead of sneering, let’s join them, says freelance journalist Sophie Wilkinson

23 June 2024

  • Blurred image of pupils walking along school corridor

    Poorer high-ability UK children fall behind peers at school from age of 11

    Study finds critical period between ages of 11 and 14 is when ‘things seem to start going wrong’ compared with wealthier group
  • Maggie Aderin-Pocock smiles as she sits between two pupils at a table

    ‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees

    Staff at Essex primary describe struggle to secure support and the difference a charity’s specialist training made
  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    The schools debate is asking all the wrong questions

    Eva Wiseman
    Private schools don’t put children first, they put everyone else last

22 June 2024

  • Parkfield school in Dorset viewed through a fence

    Flagship free school that cost £35m closes due to lack of pupils

    Government funded Parkfield, in Dorset, after ‘unbelievable’ lack of due diligence, says expert

21 June 2024

  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

    Letters: Readers respond to a call from theatre leaders to challenge the erosion and devaluation of artistic subjects

20 June 2024

  • Middle-aged man speaks into a mic.

    ACLU sues Louisiana over requiring the display of Ten Commandments in public schools

    The state recently passed a law requiring that all public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom

19 June 2024

  • Manfred Goldberg sitting in a classroom wearing a virtual reality headset

    Holocaust survivors to use AI to ‘future-proof’ their stories for UK schools

  • A middle-aged man in a suit gestures while speaking at a lectern.

    Ten Commandments to be displayed in Louisiana public school classrooms

  • Two teenage school girls standing in front of a large whiteboard side by side solving a mathematics equation on the board

    Paying private school fees years ahead may create VAT disputes, experts warn

  • Winchester College, Hampshire.

    Level the playing field? Many state schools don’t have any left

18 June 2024

  • Distant view of Dulwich College in London from playing field and cricket nets.

    The Guardian view on children and green space: private schools need to open up

  • Participants at a press conference to launch the competition who are sitting on toilets.

    German summit aims to flush away bad school toilet experiences

  • Damien Jordan, headteacher at Fairlight primary and nursery School in Brighton.

    ‘We have to be all things to our children’: how a school made sure pupils had time to play

  • A group of children play ring a roses outdoors during their school break

    Alarming lack of access to green space fuelling UK child obesity crisis, doctors warn

17 June 2024

  • unidentified pupils in school uniform

    Sexual harassment still ‘rife’ in UK schools, poll of female staff finds

    A quarter of secondary school staff say they have witnessed sexual harassment in their place of work
  • Steve Chalke in a school corridor

    Indoors at breaktime: the school in a London office block

    Group that runs Oasis Academy South Bank warns councils prioritise private housing over space for children to breathe
  • Illustration of a school surrounded by walls and buildings

    Children facing a ‘brutal’ loss of time and space for play at state schools

    Shorter playtimes and shrinking outside space in England have serious implications for children’s wellbeing and mental health
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