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Secondary schools

July 2024

  • 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

  • About a dozen people sit, pray and stand in a blue carpeted hall with arched walls and a large light fitting in the centre

    London mosque denies it advised school all prayers could be deferred

  • Michaela Community School school front

    High court upholds top London school’s ban on prayer rituals

  • Michaela school will keep its prayer ban – but as a Muslim teacher I know it doesn’t have to be this way

    Nadeine Asbali

  • The Guardian view on smartphones and children: a compelling case for action

  • Hunger, homelessness and gang grooming: just a normal week at one London academy

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