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Education policy

March 2024

  • An orange lunch tray by a serving counter

    ‘I can’t make them eat it’: Teachers and parents share school meal concerns in England

  • Despite winning a scholarship to Newcastle University to study history, Barbara Megson was determined to go to Cambridge and won a place at Girton College

    Other lives
    Barbara Megson obituary

  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movement<br>PBXPFX Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movement

    Guidance on treatment of transgender pupils poses legal risks, say unions

  • Three schoolchildren balance on tyres in a playground

    Call to revive play at UK schools to tackle ‘escalating crisis’ in child health

  • Government undermined financial education for children in England, Martin Lewis says

  • Less than 3% of artists named in GCSE art exams are Black or south Asian, study finds

  • NEU teachers’ union asks members to consider strike in England later this year

February 2024

  • A teacher helps vision-impaired boys

    How the system is rigged against children with special educational needs

  • Teenage schoolchildren raise their hands in class

    Labour to help schools develop male influencers to combat Tate misogyny

  • Pupils raise their hands in a lesson

    School summer holidays in England should be cut to four weeks, report says

  • Children and their families protesting in London to demand more help for young people with special educational needs and disabilities

    Special needs responsibilities were heaped on councils as funding shrank

  • Hundreds of children with special needs wait a year for support in England

  • Observer letters
    Private school pupils must pay VAT

  • Almost half of multi-academy trusts in England in deficit, accountants find

  • Sunak government does not merit a top performance rating, says Gillian Keegan

  • Gillian Keegan says she can’t guarantee free childcare pledge will be met on time

  • Government’s £6.5m early years plan for England a ‘drop in the ocean’

January 2024

  • Pupil in school

    Ofsted single-word judgments on schools must end, say MPs

    Committee calls on government to heed widespread concern and consider a more nuanced inspection system
  • Child on patterned carpet doing worksheets

    England homeschooling surge could become permanent, data suggests

    Department for Education estimates 97,000 children were home educated in 2023 summer term, 11,000 more than previous term
  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movement.

    Every year spent in school or university improves life expectancy, study says

    Analysis also says not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking
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