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  • A child raises his hand in the classroom

    Ethnicity not key factor in England school exclusions, study finds

    Exclusive: Researchers say poverty and special educational needs are main reason – but equality campaigners urge caution
  • National Foundation for Educational Research report<br>File photo dated 27/11/19 of school children in a classroom. Parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are becoming more "demanding" of school staff due to increased need and limited resources, a report has suggested. Issue date: Thursday April 18, 2024. PA Photo. Schools and academy trusts are facing "significant challenges" around special educational needs and disabilities (Send) provision, according to the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). See PA story EDUCATION Send. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

    The Guardian view on the children’s bill: academy freedoms are beside the point

  • back of heads of two children in a classroom

    Record number of families in England fined over term-time holidays

  • Some children starting school ‘unable to climb staircase’, finds England and Wales teacher survey

  • Who is criticising Labour’s new education bill – and why?

  • Oklahoma schools plan to require proof of students’ immigration status

  • Cardiff University to cut 400 staff and drop subjects including nursing and music

  • Southport attack: families not told for six months about killer’s Prevent referrals

  • The Guardian view on teachers’ pay: colleges don’t deserve second-class status

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In depth

  • Tobias plays a viola, as Destiny plays piano and Rosanna sings

    Banging the drum for music education: the UK school run with an orchestra

  • Two boys working on laptops at a desk

    ‘I love the four-day week’: south London school part of a quiet revolution

    Independent school Liberty Woodland is one of a small number in England experimenting with the timetable
  • Smiling children standing in a classroom

    ‘Our school has been homeless for two years’: a rotting Cumbria school counts the cost

    Pupils at Sacred Heart Catholic school in Barrow-in-Furness are in temporary classrooms and education is suffering
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Opinion

  • Ella Garai-Ebner

    My grandpa chose not to speak about his Holocaust experiences – but he asked me to tell the world

    Ella Garai-Ebner
  • Illustration of a man reading a book and using a laptop

    Learning to read in a foreign language has taught me to embrace ambiguity – one sentence at a time

    Patrick Lum
  • Polly Toynbee

    I didn’t think it was possible, but this week has been a new low for the Tories

    Polly Toynbee
  • Polly Toynbee

    Ignore Musk, ignore the critics – you’ll feel the benefit of Labour’s policies in your pocket before long

    Polly Toynbee
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