Education

All schools in England are expected to open on Monday, though secondary schools will be allowed to stagger pupils’ return to the classroom over two weeks, depending on their capacity to…
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Glyn Jones, the headteacher of Blue Coat primary school in the Cotswolds market town of Wotton-under-Edge, sums up his mood as “apprehensive excitement” as he and his staff prepare for…
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Political and press interest in what happens in universities is intense and the freedom of speech issue is at the centre of the culture wars being fought by this government. Antagonism…
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Sometime in the mid-1990s, at around four in the morning, Melbourne music teacher Stephanie Bourke’s phone rang. It was Courtney Love, the lead singer of Hole. One of the students at…
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A project that will place work by six prominent black artists in schools has the potential to transform how children think about art and who can be an artist, according to its…
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Four-fifths of staff in universities and colleges are struggling with an increased workload and poor mental health because of the Covid pandemic, a poll shows. More than half (57.5%)…
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Leading international climate scientists are among more than 200 academics who have written to the government calling on it to halt what they say would be an ecologically destructive…
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Fresh evidence of the impact of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions on the young have been highlighted by official figures showing the sharpest quarterly rise in almost a decade of 16-24…
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“We are meritocrats,” declared Tony Blair in his adoption speech as candidate for Sedgefield in 2001. Nearly two decades later, on 13 December 2019, Boris Johnson travelled from…
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ICT teacher Misk Sharif Ali: ‘I try to bring laughter, warmth, enjoyment to every class’ When she left school at 16 with one GCSE, Misk Sharif Ali couldn’t have imagined…
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