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  • Gloria Chalaco, a cleaner at James Allen’s girls school in Dulwich, is pictured outside the Dulwich school

    Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school vote to strike over cut in hours

    James Allen’s girls’ school in London faces industrial action by members of union for low-paid migrant workers
  • Ex-Tory minister Chris Skidmore could head the Office for Students.

    UK universities need rescue package to stop ‘domino effect’ of going under

  • A black and white picture of Ruth Perry attached to a fence

    Inquiry into headteacher’s suicide says ‘macho culture’ of inspections must end

  • Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students

  • Keir Starmer on collision course with unions over public sector pay

  • School heads urge Labour to continue funding national tutoring scheme

  • High court allows two UK universities to remove Gaza protest camps

  • School can be brutal. Congratulations to anyone who has just made it through another year

    Adrian Chiles
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  • University lecturer writing on a blackboard

    Inept managers have left universities at crisis point

  • Tents on a lawn in front of university buildings

    Gaza protest camps at UK universities wind down amid legal action

    • Mariyah Ali outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London

      Birmingham University censoring student beliefs over Gaza camp evictions, court hears

    • Illustration: Guardian Design

      How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster – podcast

    • NSW police at the scene of an alleged stabbing at University of Sydney

      University of Sydney stabbing: 14-year-old may have been influenced by ‘salad bar’ of ideologies, police allege

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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

  • Keir Starmer holds a news conference after his first cabinet meeting on 6 July 2024.

    The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    It’s no surprise a Newsweek writer panned Taylor Swift for being single and childless

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Gillian Harvey

    After 15 years away I moved back to the UK fearing the worst. What I found startled me

    Gillian Harvey
  • Teenage girl playing snooker.

    The Guardian view on youth clubs: these vital institutions do more than prevent crime

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