The crisis of Scotland’s ghost children
Freedom of information requests reveal how school attendance has plummeted since lockdown.
ByFreedom of information requests reveal how school attendance has plummeted since lockdown.
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ByIn 2003 Labour aimed to refurbish all of England’s secondary schools, but in 2010 the Tories dropped the project.
ByCrumbling schools exemplify an age of private affluence and public squalor.
ByPupils return to home-education after the Department of Education deems 156 schools structurally unsafe.
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ByThe problems in education are too deep-rooted to be solved by headline-grabbing innovations.
ByAlso this week: the unfairness of A-levels and ministers who say results don’t matter.
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