For sale: the British class system – everything must go
Can a £180,000 tutor teach your children the ways of the aristocracy?
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Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets
Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra…
ByTackling the birth rate crisis
You can’t fix this decline without fixing childcare or housing.
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What Bridget Phillipson can learn from Conservative education policy
In a new book, the former schools minister Nick Gibb defends a strong, if controversial legacy.
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Schools need more sex education, not less
Children must be prepared for the world as it is.
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Britain’s ghost children
School lifted me out of poverty. Today’s absence crisis denies that opportunity to thousands.
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Stained by shame: Britain’s hygiene poverty crisis
In the absence of state support, teachers are providing everything from clothing to soap.
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What is school for?
The struggle for control of the national curriculum is a fight for the soul of English education.
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The special needs trap
What one parent’s experience reveals about a system on the brink of collapse.
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The “success story” of Tory education reform is a mirage
False claims about academies’ performance are obscuring the ambition of Labour’s Schools Bill.
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Letter of the week: Bring in the big guns
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Katharine Birbalsingh: “They’re going to destroy our schools”
The outspoken headteacher believes Bridget Phillipson’s reforms are an attack on educational freedom. She is ready for the fight.
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Closing Britain’s privilege gap
The case for ending the effective state subsidy of private schools is overwhelming.
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Can Labour’s £315m school breakfast plan save a generation?
Without supporting the 900,000 children below the poverty-line who are ineligible for free lunchtime food, the policy risks being undermined.
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Class war: the battle over private schools
Labour must recover its radical tradition and close Britain’s education privilege gap.
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Bridget Phillipson is planning a fightback
The Education Secretary knows she needs to make a clearer case for her school reforms.
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Are Scotland and England swapping places on education?
As Labour rolls back academy freedoms, Scottish parties are showing interest in a different approach.
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How racist are British schools?
Kalwant Bhopal presents school as a terrible place to be an ethnic minority in her book Race and Education. The…
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Britain’s exam delusion
Assessment has eclipsed learning in an education system that fails students and worsens inequality.
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Katharine Birbalsingh’s prayer ban is a victory for tolerance
The Michaela School head teacher is right: secular measures prevent, rather than inflame, religious prejudice.
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