Why “chippy” Bridget Phillipson was right about private schools
Independent research shows the shadow education secretary’s plan to remove private schools’ tax exemption will help the sector.
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Scotland is falling behind in the digital race
Laptops and tablets provided by the SNP in the country’s poorer areas have simply disappeared.
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Meet the teenagers who crashed Keir Starmer’s speech
“They put us on the stage and were like, ‘Clap at the appropriate time!’ ”
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How Starmer will rethink education
The Labour leader lays out the party’s final mission.
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Can Labour inspire hope?
The sense of fatalism across the country means that the party’s education plan is its most important initiative.
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Labour anger grows over Wes Streeting’s media blitz
Party sources complain that the shadow health secretary was awarded 18 spots in the party’s publicity schedule to promote his…
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How to solve a problem like free speech? Even the tsar will struggle
University students need to be exposed to different views - but even the government doesn't seem to know where to…
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Why Labour’s student loan reform pledge is underwhelming
The announcement will not inspire graduates, nor will it fix the broken higher education system.
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Why tuition fees are the progressive option
Students paying for their own tuition is fairer for everyone. Karl Marx knew that.
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Creative education is as crucial for children’s learning as maths
While the government focuses on Stem subjects, we cannot forget that creativity provides young people with cognitive and communication skills.
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Without maths, people are excluded from society
Better mathematics education is one the best investments we can make towards our future.
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Royal Academy of Engineering chief: “The industry has a diversity deficit”
Hayaatun Sillem on the need for inclusive product design, problems with the education system, and her unexpected route into engineering.
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The Policy Ask with Tim Bradshaw: “R&D investment will give us the talent to tackle climate change and pandemics”
The chief executive of the Russell Group on barriers to global academic collaboration and the need for a Zero Carbon…
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T Levels and apprenticeships should no longer be seen as a “Cinderella service”
Skills minister Robert Halfon outlines how vocational qualifications can offer new career paths.
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Katharine Birbalsingh doesn’t understand private schools
Elite education is not “woke” at all.
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What a teachers’ strike doesn’t solve
I didn’t leave my teaching job after two years because of the pay. It was everything else.
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Why nobody wants to be a teacher anymore
Teachers shouldn't have to choose between their own wellbeing and that of their students.
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Kids need better numeracy, but maths until 18 isn’t the answer
Two years’ extra arithmetic doesn’t make up for 12 years of bad teaching.
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Rishi Sunak’s maths to 18 plan doesn’t add up
The policy doesn’t reflect voters’ priorities and there aren’t enough teachers to deliver it.
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Rishi Sunak can’t get away with neglecting childcare
The sector’s woes are more than an education issue, so the Prime Minister would be wise to heed his MPs’…
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