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Education

  • Polly Toynbee

    Let’s end the annual torture of GCSE resits – and give students qualifications they’ll actually use

    Polly Toynbee
    Compulsory maths and English retakes speak of a system that ignores pupils’ real talents. But hope is on the horizon, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • Two toddlers sat down on a chair sharing a colourful stacking game

    Expansion plans require 85,000 more childcare places by September 2025

  • A bright primary school room with a small table and bookcases with books.

    English primary schools cutting teacher numbers amid budget pressure, survey finds

  • London mosque denies it advised school all prayers could be deferred

  • Football coaching boosts wellbeing of troubled pupils, study finds

  • Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be brave – and revitalise it

    Terri White

  • Columbia president assailed at highly charged antisemitism Congress hearing

  • Experts divided over implications of prayer ban ruling at London school

  • Tell us your experience of prayer at school

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University guide

Universities

  • Goldsmiths, University of London, in New Cross

    The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral

  • Jane Ohlmeyer and colleagues examine documents

    How the dung queen of Dublin was swept from history

    • Writer Bernardine Evaristo at the Hay festival in 2022

      Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA

    • An overpass leading to an academic building with the words 'Universität zu Köln' lit up

      German university rescinds Jewish American’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter

    • Education Secretary Gillian Keegan outside 10 Downing Street

      Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut

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In depth

  • ‘It’s always strange in a virtual setting – it’s like you’re watching yourself take the test in the mirror.’

    Are your kids being spied on? The rise of anti-cheating software in US schools

  • Chloe Beak with her mother, Kerry

    ‘She wants to go to school’: parents of unwell child fear truancy prosecution

    The Beaks are among the families in England and Wales who have faced fines over health-related school absences
  • Benard McKinley speaks during his commencement as part of the Northwestern Prison Education Program at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois, on 15 November 2023.

    He got a college degree in prison. Now he’s off to a prestigious law school

    In a historic achievement, Benard McKinley, 39, was accepted to Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago
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Opinion

  • Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, leaders of the "Bring back our girls" campaign group, discuss during their visit to the Presidential villa Abuja<br>Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, leaders of the "Bring back our girls" campaign group, discuss during their visit to the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, January 14, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

    #BringBackOurGirls fought to keep global attention on Nigeria’s stolen Chibok girls. Ten years on it is still fighting

    Helon Habila
  • Nadeine Asbali

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

    Nadeine Asbali
  • In this photo illustration, a 12-year-old schoolboy looks at a iPhone screen.

    The Guardian view on misogyny in schools: the teaching unions are right – ministers must step up

  • Gus John

    Jamaica needs teachers, yet England poaches them and classrooms lie empty. How can that be right?

    Gus John
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