The real reason students market their trauma in university applications
We’re forced to create stories where poverty is not a structural phenomenon, but an obstacle on a personal journey.
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Why it’s time to free schools from the tyranny of Ofsted
Let’s use this moment, when the pandemic is making us rethink so many aspects of how our lives and society…
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Teaching your 10-year-old about porn isn’t as awkward as them learning about it from someone else
We’re kidding ourselves if we pretend porn isn’t shaping young people’s sexual scripts. So talk to them about it.
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The SNP is shutting its eyes to the crisis in Scottish schools
After a prolonged period of lockdown and home-learning, the Covid hangover is being felt everywhere. What have education ministers and…
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How generous was Rishi Sunak’s 2021 Budget and spending review really?
Beneath the surface of headline-grabbing announcements, the long legacy of austerity still cuts deep.
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The Conservatives’ war on the humanities will hurt working-class students
In the name of “anti-elitist” politics, Britain’s cultural landscape will likely become even more middle class.
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If the Tories are serious about social mobility, they’ll have to level down the aspirations of middle-class parents
The social mobility in the government’s imagination is one in which nobody suffers – but that option no longer exists.
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Kathleen Stock and Sussex University: the war over academic freedom
How a campus trans row ended in protests, a police investigation – and a debate over the future of free…
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The reckoning: rape culture and the crisis in British schools
After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be the…
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Why we invest in STEM education
Through a £93m annual investment, BAE Systems upskills young people in areas such as engineering and coding to help build…
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School closures further isolate a lonely generation – and the effect on children could be disastrous
Promised online resources to “boost mental health support” are no substitute for what schools offer children: friends, exercise, purpose and safeguarding.
ByStudents to face unlimited tuition fees
Browne review paves way for dramatic increase in fees but calls for new payment threshold of £21,000
ByGraduate tax set to replace tuition fees for students
Vince Cable endorses a graduate tax and calls for two-year degrees to cut costs.
ByElection 2010: Party promises | Education
What Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are promising for education.
BySharp funding cuts for higher education
Lord Mandelson announces annual cuts totalling £533m
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