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    Free childcare pledge in England in peril after Tories ‘recklessly rushed out’ plan

    Nurseries warn they lack staff for next month’s expansion of free provision that was promised by Conservatives
  • Image of a school teacher looking stressed next to piles of classroom books.

    Teachers’ regulator in England investigated after claims it has left teachers in distress

  • Head and shoulders shot of Paul Givan in suit and tie

    Minister apologises for Northern Ireland special education needs data breach

  • For-profit colleges fund lawmakers who led attack on top universities over campus protests

  • Headteacher paid damages in disability discrimination case against Ofsted

  • St Andrews rector dismissed from governing body over Israel genocide accusation

  • ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

  • I loved being home schooled (apart from my mum’s sex ed lessons). But are new methods too radical?

    Elle Hunt
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  • Protesters gather outside the Nancy Rothwell building at Manchester University.

    Staff and students should not be denied the right to free speech about Gaza

  • Three women wearing caps and gowns at university graduation

    Universities in England face fines if they fail to protect students from harassment

    • UK university students wearing mortar boards and gowns

      Ucas personal statements weren’t read by academics

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      Send us your old Ucas personal statements

    • Exterior of Goldsmiths, University of London

      English universities should not expect government bailout, Phillipson says

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In depth

  • Trump on stage in front of a large sign saying 'Faith'

    Trump and Project 2025 are attacking the Department of Education. How might they reshape US schools?

  • Maggie Aderin-Pocock smiles as she sits between two pupils at a table

    ‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees

    Staff at Essex primary describe struggle to secure support and the difference a charity’s specialist training made
  • Pupils sit together eating a meal

    Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school’s radical 12-hour day

    All Saints Catholic College aiming to ‘give children their childhood back’ by breaking their screen addictions
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Opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    Are you giving your kids a 90s summer?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Adrian Chiles

    Graduation is such a significant moment – and yet we never realise it at the time

    Adrian Chiles
  • Pupils in a classroom

    The Guardian view on the widening attainment gap: poorer children need a boost

  • Arash Abizadeh

    Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that

    Arash Abizadeh
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