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Secondary schools

August 2024

  • Pupils with raised hands in a classroom with a teacher at the white board

    Children to be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online

    Education secretary launches review of curriculum in primary and secondary schools in England aimed at teaching critical thinking
  • Becky Francis, an academic who advises the education select committee. Pictured in her office.

    The Guardian view on curriculum reform: a mammoth and delicate task

    Editorial: There is huge scope for improvement. Increasing the range of subjects while reducing exams would be a good way to start
  • Students sitting mock GCSE exams

    England’s curriculum review: what education experts want to see

    Ideas range from fewer tests and less emphasis on grammar to sex education reform and more children’s agency

July 2024

  • Chris Pudney with his testing device

    One in six vapes confiscated at English schools spiked with ‘zombie drug’

    Warning of risk of serious harm as synthetic drug spice found in vapes in 28 of 38 schools tested
  • A motion blurred image of a group of pupils

    Sharp increase in pupils suspended or excluded from schools in England

    Teachers struggling with disruptive and violent behaviour as record 787,000 pupils suspended in 2022-23
  • Reema Reid, headteacher, faces camera smiling in next to some work done by children

    School heads urge Labour to continue funding national tutoring scheme

    Programme due to close after its launch four years ago to help children in England catch up after Covid crisis

June 2024

  • illustration composite with children looking at a teacher in front of a whiteboard and an apprentice

    Life under Labour
    Labour wants to create opportunities for all. Can its education pledges narrow the divide?

  • Blurred image of pupils walking along school corridor

    Poorer high-ability UK children fall behind peers at school from age of 11

  • Richard Abraham

    Other lives
    Richard Abraham obituary

  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

  • Mental health is main cause of rising absences in England, say headteachers

  • English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds

May 2024

  • Teenagers in school uniforms in a drama class

    Fewer pupils in England studying drama and media at GCSE and A-level

  • A student writes with a pink pen in an exercise book at a school desk in a classroom

    Today in Focus
    What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?

  • A child with two ponytails raises her hand in a classroom

    Curbs on sex education use pupils as ‘political football’, school leaders say

  • A teacher writes on a white board with three girls in a classroom with two raising their hands

    Age curbs on sex education topics risk making some children vulnerable

  • Sex education in English schools set to be banned before children are nine

  • Bring back the pleasure of reading in classrooms

April 2024

  • Headteachers say they are forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after losing caretakers to cuts.

    Brief letters
    Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

  • Michaela Community School in Brent

    Prayer rituals in schools remain a divisive issue

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