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17 June 2024

  • Royal Hospital school, in Suffolk.

    Private schools in England should be made to share their green space, say campaigners

    Supporters of access to nature call for legal change after Guardian reveals 10:1 discrepancy with state sector
  • Robert Verkaik

    Playing fields sold off, swimming pools closed down – state-school children don’t have a sporting chance

    Robert Verkaik
    A Guardian report has revealed the huge areas of outdoor space owned by UK private schools. It’s time for this inequality to end, says journalist Robert Verkaik
  • Primary school children queueing for breakfast at a canteen

    Teachers and GPs ‘staggering’ under extra demands caused by poverty in Great Britain

    Schools and health services forced to offer crisis help in the form of food, clothing, money and advice

16 June 2024

  • Winchester college’s science hall as seen from the banks of the River Itchen

    How England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of land

    Students at top fee-paying institutions benefit from centuries of philanthropy originally intended to help the poor
  • Royal Hospital school, Holbrook.

    Beagling, golf and jolly hockey sticks: outdoor life at England’s largest private schools

    Guardian investigation reveals vast gap in outdoor space and lists the top 10 schools with the most of all

    • How the Guardian investigated green space inequality at English schools

    • Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

    • Revealed: students at top private schools have 10 times more green space than state pupils

15 June 2024

  • School pupils work on prototypes as they perform 3D printing tasks.

    D&T could be gone from national curriculum in four years, business leaders warn

    Design and Technology is dying out, as report finds that 20% of schools in England and Wales don’t teach the subject
  • Kevin Craig, pictured in 2012 as he arrives with the Olympic flame at St Paul's Cathedral in London before the start of the London Olympic Games.

    Labour candidate’s PR firm lobbied against plan for VAT for private schools

    Kevin Craig’s company works with Independent Schools Council, a leading campaigner against policy for VAT on fees
  • Pupils at Harrow school.

    Number of private school pupils rises despite claims families priced out by Labour’s VAT plan

    Independent schools in England had warned plan to charge VAT on fees was putting parents off and had shut schools

14 June 2024

  • Overhead view of schoolchildren in a playground

    Mental health is main cause of rising absences in England, say headteachers

  • Marina Hyde

    It’s the Sunak syndrome: you’re richer than the king but only ‘pass’ at being posh. That’s the class system for you

    Marina Hyde
  • Nicholas Hytner, Nancy Medina, Theresa Heskins

    ‘Absolute outrage’: arts in state schools must be a priority for next government, say theatre leaders

  • Pupils sit together eating a meal

    Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school’s radical 12-hour day

13 June 2024

  • Pupils at All Saints Catholic college laugh as they hold paintbrushes at a long table

    Today in Focus
    The phone-free, 12-hour school-day experiment – podcast

    One west London school is trying to give children their childhood back – by extending its hours from 7am to 7pm. Will it work? Helen Pidd reports
  • An empty classroom.

    US school district where students held mock slave auction settles with DoJ

    Federal investigation found evidence of repeated racist harassment among Hawkins county, Tennessee, students
  • Back of heads of a couple of school children in a classroom with hands raised

    Record 576,000 pupils have special needs support plan in England

    New DfE figures reveal big jump in children requiring support, putting pressure on schools and councils

11 June 2024

  • Books on shelves in library

    Book about book bans banned by Florida school board

  • Schoolchildren eating a meal.

    Three steps that would stop children going hungry

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