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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The price of private education
For as long as boarding school survivors govern Britain, they will inflict their own pain on the nation.
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The Parliament Brief: will the new schools “phone ban” keep children safe?
Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, told MPs that most headteachers already restrict the use of devices.
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The lesson Katharine Birbalsingh can’t teach
Britain’s strictest headteacher is preparing children for a society that no longer exists.
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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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The SNP can’t explain away Scotland’s schools catastrophe
Under the SNP, pupil performance in maths, science and reading has plummeted.
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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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The great private school con
They no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. So what is elite education…
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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Does Labour now support private schools?
Starmer’s acceptance of private schools’ charitable status indicates an appetite for mild reform rather than ideological opposition.
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TUC chief: Tax wealth to fix broken Britain
Labour has ruled them out, but today at the Trades Union Congress conference, Paul Nowak calls for new taxes on…
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The week that ruined Rishi Sunak’s autumn
The idea that changing leaders again might improve the Tories’ chances used to seem absurd. Now I’m not sure.
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The Policy Ask with Anne Longfield: “Two-child benefits limit only deepens poverty and misery”
The former children’s commissioner for England on the impact of Covid-19 on young people’s mental health, and the need for…
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The great crack-up
We inhabit an economy too small to deliver the social goods British people expect.
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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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The school concrete crisis should terrify the Tories
Public discussion is now focused on the Conservatives’ biggest weakness: the cost of austerity.
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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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Education’s inequality curse
Rishi Sunak has protected the status quo in schools and universities, as the gaps of privilege and geography grow ever…
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