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Education

  • Pupils in a classroom

    The Guardian view on the widening attainment gap: poorer children need a boost

    Editorial: The progress made by pupils from lower-income families has been wiped out – and it’s not all the pandemic’s fault
  • Arash Abizadeh

    Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that

    Arash Abizadeh
  • Labour Cuts

    We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

    Emma Vincent Miller, Catherine Fletcher, Minesh Parekh, Rachel Clarke and Anonymous

  • Gordon Brown calls on ministers not to scrap T-level qualification

  • Rich-poor education gap grows for 16-year-olds in almost all of England

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

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

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

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

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University guide

Universities

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters in tents at Birmingham university's campus

    High court allows two UK universities to remove Gaza protest camps

  • 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

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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

  • Adrian Chiles

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

    Adrian Chiles
  • 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
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