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11 June 2024

  • ‘The rabbit hole felt like the place to aim at’ … Tilda Swinton.

    ‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’ Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience

  • Zoe Williams

    How much do you love your children? With prom season approaching, it’s time for more competitive parenting

    Zoe Williams

10 June 2024

  • Rishi Sunak in a BBC studio.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Harder to own your first home under the Tories, Rishi Sunak admits – UK politics as it happened

    PM acknowledges in BBC Panorama interview to air tonight that it is a challenge for people to buy their first home
  • Anne Turvey

    Other lives
    Anne Turvey obituary

    Other lives: Teacher trainer who played a leading role in the London Association for the Teaching of English
  • A teacher taking a lesson with some fading flowers drawn on the blackboard

    The big idea
    The big idea: why we need to put death on the curriculum

    Most British children experience bereavement, and schools should help them deal with it

8 June 2024

  • Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union on a picket line

    Labour must halt ‘disastrous’ teacher exodus if it wants to improve schools, heads warn

  • Eleanor Shakespeare smartphone 31.5.24 Smartphoneban WEB-finalV2

    Head to head
    ‘They give us liberty with less anxiety’: A teenager, a parent and a teacher on smartphones for under-14s

6 June 2024

  • Private school students holding books

    Labour’s plan for VAT on private schools highlights inequalities

    Letters: Dr Elizabeth Shawcross says it will hit poorer rural areas hard, William Rees and Isaac Woolley consider the effect on those with special educational needs, while the head of Keir Starmer’s old school, Shaun Fenton, hopes the UK won’t tax education
  • Aerial image of children eating school meals

    A quarter of state school pupils in England receiving free school meals

    Department for Education data shows a record 2.1 million are eligible, up by 75,000 in a year
  • Teenage girl in jeans and pumps sits on wall by road and uses mobile phone

    Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free

    Measures will impact more than 13,000 pupils in Southwark, and include confiscating phones used at school

4 June 2024

  • An adult hands a plate of sausage and egg to a child

    Eight in 10 primary teachers in England spending own money to help pupils

  • Boy reading in classroom.

    Children reading fewer, less challenging books, UK and Ireland study finds

3 June 2024

  • A pupil hangs off the side of a slide on patchy grass with a safety barrier by a wooden shed in the background

    English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds

    Real-terms funding per pupil at 2010 levels, teacher pay at 2001 levels, and building investment 25% below mid-2000s
  • A brown, one-story school building with trees and bushes out front

    US school teacher suspended for holding mock slave auction in class

    The Boston-area elementary school superintendent apologized to parents, saying the incident was ‘unacceptable’
  • Rear view of primary school children in class

    ‘Is it fair? No. Is it morally right? Yes.’: parents on private school fee VAT plans

    Some private school parents say Labour’s 20% tax proposal will be bad for their children, but will it affect how they vote?

2 June 2024

  • A pupil tucks in at The Priory primary school in Wednesbury, West Midlands.

    ‘A full tummy means pupils can concentrate.’ But is Labour’s school breakfast plan bold enough?

  • Catherine Bennett

    Must we pity put-upon parents sacrificing all to send their offspring to private school?

    Catherine Bennett

31 May 2024

  • John Horn

    Other lives
    John Horn obituary

    Other lives: Headteacher and president of the Secondary Heads’ Association with a strong commitment to the state system
  • Eton public school boys

    Six of the worst: the school floggings suffered by the beaten generation

    Letters: Readers respond to an article by Sebastian Doggart on being flogged at Eton and share their own experiences of corporal punishement at school
  • The three politicians smiling in front of a crowd of people holding Lib Dem posters

    Lib Dems would extend free school meals to all primary schoolchildren, says Ed Davey

    Exclusive: Leader challenges Labour to match £500m pledge, to be paid for with US-inspired share buyback tax
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