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  • Lecturers on a picket line at Goldsmiths in 2022.

    Goldsmiths academics to strike over ‘incomprehensible’ redundancies

    Union says cuts will make the creative powerhouse unrecognisable and risk unprecedented industrial unrest
  • Ben Pimlott Building at Goldsmiths

    ‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked

  • Graeme Sneddon (centre) reads a statement alongside other victims of John Brownlee’s abuse outside Edinburgh sheriff court.

    Beatings, humiliation and loss of self-worth: how Edinburgh Academy victims were scarred

  • Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe

  • Tory MP Robert Halfon quits as minister and James Heappey confirms resignation, paving way for mini reshuffle – as it happened

  • Special educational needs in English schools in ‘crisis’, minister admits

  • School leaders welcome proposal to tackle harassment of teachers

  • Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1 – Full Story podcast

  • Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age

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  • Students on campus

    ‘Left without a voice’: October general election could leave students in UK unable to vote

  • Robin Okey

    Robin Okey obituary

    • Tobias Menzies as Edwin Stanton, on the trail of assassin John Wilkes Booth in Manhunt.

      The week in TV: Manhunt; Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax; The Dry; Is University Really Worth It? – review

    • James Cleverly leaving No 10 Downing Street.

      Foreign students may be undermining UK higher education, says Cleverly

    • Bleak stuff … teacher turned comedian Geoff Norcott in Is University Really Worth It?

      Is University Really Worth It? review – not when students are left starving

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In depth

  • Charles Spencer as a boy before going to Maidwell Hall as a boarding pupil.

    ‘I don’t think I developed emotionally’: Earl Spencer on the pain of boarding-school abuse

  • A boy does maths activities on an iPad.

    ‘Children are being failed’: why more English parents are home educating

    Fines, health needs, and a poor learning environment are among the reasons for the rise in children taken out of school
  • Alan Streeter was the fifth headteacher at the school in three years when he arrived in 2018.

    ‘Parents didn’t want their kids to be here’: inside the troubled London school that stopped excluding pupils and restored calm

    Headteacher Alan Streeter has turned around Beacon High School, a deprived secondary with a reputation for violence and 300 suspensions a year
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Opinion

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Boarding schools can do tremendous harm. Charles Spencer’s bleak memoir proves it

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Charlotte Higgins

    I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – now I hope words become action

    Charlotte Higgins
  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movement

    The Guardian view on multi-academy trusts: disputes over school budgets point to deeper issues

  • Polly Toynbee

    The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back

    Polly Toynbee
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