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11 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer takes questions from children in a year three class: he faces the children and three small girls in red jumpers are seen from behind with their hands up.

    Starmer urged to restore community cohesion programmes in schools

    Exclusive: Race relations expert joins calls for PM to give ‘state of the nation’ address tackling root causes of riots
  • Teenage boy studying online

    Online learning can’t replace being in school

    Letter: Jim McManners is dismayed by the suggestion that children who find it difficult to work cooperatively would be better off with remote lessons
  • A protester dressed as bishop in a night-time march

    Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’

    Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rights

10 September 2024

  • A class full of primary school children at their desks

    UK primary class sizes among biggest in industrialised world, report finds

    Only Chile exceeds UK’s 27 pupils a class in OECD study, with UK pupil-teacher ratio also among highest
  • An illustration of a school lunch tray

    School food fights
    A comic guide to what changed (and what didn’t) for US school lunches

    This year, the USDA put some limits on added sugars for the first time. But changes face robust resistance
  • Steve Turner

    Why stop at breakfast? We paediatricians think all of England’s primary pupils should have lunch for free

    Steve Turner
    There are increasing numbers of children with chronic health conditions. It must be on Labour’s menu to help them, says Steve Turner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

9 September 2024

  • Rachel Reeves in Downing Street last week.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened

  • NHS staff using computers.

    ‘Serious disruption’ possible in hospitals with expiring PFI contracts, report says

  • Student using a calculator in an exam

    IGCSE maths preparation is easier than GCSE

  • John Oliver, wearing a dark suit and glasses, sits at a desk and speaks with a graphic of of a school lunch tray on the screen

    John Oliver recap
    John Oliver on universal free meals at school: ‘We have the power to ensure no kid in this country is hungry’

  • Labour is cracking down on truants, but as a mother and ex-teacher, I know tough love goes only so far

    Gillian Harvey

  • Impact of Covid lockdowns to disrupt England’s schools into the 2030s, report says

8 September 2024

  • Ofsted inspector taking notes

    A wishlist for better Ofsted school inspections

  • Teenagers using mobile phones while seated in rows during an exam.

    Exam Nation by Sammy Wright review – an essential lesson for Britain’s grade-obsessed education system

7 September 2024

  • Anne Fine sits on the edge of a desk in a room lined with books on shelves

    Anne Fine: children should be allowed to learn online instead of going to school

    Former children’s laureate says rather than punishing absenteeism the UK’s education system should change

6 September 2024

  • Gavin Williamson

    Gavin Williamson to face Covid inquiry over impact of school closures

  • Books used to study for the 11-plus exam

    English grammar schools raising funds with charge for mock 11-plus exam

5 September 2024

  • Kevin McCloud

    Brief letters
    It’s all cisterns go for the modern home

  • Lonely teenage boy in front of black background looking down

    School exclusions rise by fifth in England in past year, study finds

4 September 2024

  • Students taking an exam

    There is no evidence that GCSEs are harder than IGCSEs

    Letters: There are many reasons to be sceptical about private schools, but this is not one of them, writes Dr Nick Smith
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