Ofsted must change if it is to regain teachers’ trust
The coroner has ruled in the death of Ruth Perry, but serious questions remain for the schools inspectorate.
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Demolition Britain – where new-build schools are too dangerous for pupils
Schools under two years old are being condemned while students shiver in tents or fall behind on lessons at home.
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What are private schools really selling?
They no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. Can elite education survive?
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The crisis of Scotland’s ghost children
Freedom of information requests reveal how school attendance has plummeted since lockdown.
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Letter of the week: Wealth and learning
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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How Conservative complacency left schools to rot
In 2003 Labour aimed to refurbish all of England’s secondary schools, but in 2010 the Tories dropped the project.
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A state in disrepair
Crumbling schools exemplify an age of private affluence and public squalor.
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Britain’s crumbling schools are the result of an investment crisis
Pupils return to home-education after the Department of Education deems 156 schools structurally unsafe.
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