15 h. ago Work on 100 rebuilding projects for crumbling schools kicks off this week

The government is spending £1.4 billion this year on urgently improving the condition of school buildings - some of which Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said were “falling apart"

Politics

62 h. ago Labour ignored education department plea to delay VAT on private school fees until new year so Government could net almost £1bn extra from families

Lawyers for the Government have told the High Court bringing forward the date by eight months would raise 'an additional revenue of over £900 million'.

Economics

68 h. ago Education Secretary urges schools to recruit more male teachers to head off 'toxic online influences' after Adolescence drama highlighted 'defining issue of our time'

Bridget Phillipson said schoolboys needed 'strong, positive male role models to look up to' as she highlighted a lack of men forging careers in the classroom.

Events

3 d. ago Bridget Phillipson calls for more male teachers to help boys reject 'toxic online influences'

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will admit schools can’t solve the problem alone but that she wants more men to work in classrooms to help guide young boys

Events

3 d. ago Education Secretary: More men needed in classrooms to be positive role models

Bridget Phillipson will speak alongside Dame Rachel de Souza at the commissioner’s inaugural Festival Of Childhood: Our Future, Our Voice.

Politics

3 d. ago London primary school consults on closure after 150 years amid dwindling birthrates and financial struggles

St Cuthbert with St Matthias Church of England Primary School sent out a letter to parents to announce the ‘sad’ news

Politics

4 d. ago My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?

I have two degrees, two books to my name and I write for the Guardian. Yet I spent time in care, live at home and struggle for money. Can Karl Marx help me make sense of myself?I have been obsessed with and confused by social class all my life. Both of my grandparents grew up in Liverpool in the 1930s in traditionally working-class households. They were clever and conscientious and managed to earn scholarships to university, eventually becoming teachers. My parents have university degrees and own property; one of them is now a judge. To most people, all these things place me squarely and categorically in the middle class. But I was in special educational schools from the age of nine, spent part of my childhood in care, left education altogether at 14 and collected the dole until getting my first job in a cotton mill. All these things make me a dyed-in-the-wool prole.And yet I have two degrees, I have written two books and I freelance for the Guardian – you can’t get m...

Politics

4 d. ago Who actually runs Columbia University? | Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock

Trustees aren’t academics – and they’re often political wolves in sheep’s clothing. We need reform to save the American university as we know itLate on Friday evening, the trustees of Columbia University announced that its interim president, Katrina Armstrong, was leaving her post.Six days earlier, she had convened an emergency meeting with 75 faculty members after the university had cravenly surrendered to the demands of the Trump administration in the hopes of recovering $400m in federal grants and contracts. The president and her staff called their predicament “heartbreaking” and sought to reassure faculty that academic freedom and departmental autonomy remained intact. Continue reading...

Culture

5 d. ago Legal challenges to VAT on private schools fees to be heard at High Court

Nearly 20 families and several faith schools are bringing legal action against the Treasury, claiming the new VAT on fees is discriminatory and a breach of human rights law

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5 d. ago Emergency meeting called after dire Estyn report into schools and education service

Education services in Powys are causing "significant concern"

Politics

5 d. ago New head to lead top Scotland's only independent only boys' school

An experienced educator with a track record of whole-school transformation has been appointed as the next Headmaster of one of Edinburgh’s most prestigious independent schools.

Politics

6 d. ago Gymnastics’ embrace of Russians highlights neutrality’s blurred lines

FIG’s endorsement of Angelina Melnikova raises eyebrows, as does its president’s hug for propagandist Nikita NagornyyUpon his arrival in Moscow this month, Morinari Watanabe, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), made a curious decision. As he emerged for meetings, Watanabe was greeted by the gymnast Nikita Nagornyy. The pair embraced in a warm hug before the cameras.Across his decade on the Russian men’s national team, Nagornyy established himself as one of the great gymnasts of his generation. A former world all-around champion, he led Russia to the men’s team gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. His eponymous triple back pike remains an audacious athletic feat. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago Angela Rayner told to call emergency Cobra meeting and send in private firms to break Birmingham bin strike as rubbish piles up and giant rats move in

The Tories are demanding action from Communities Secretary Angela Rayner over the deepening industrial dispute that has left large parts of England's second city looking like bomb sites.

Economics

7 d. ago Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says closing primary schools offer ‘opportunities to think creatively’

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says closing primary schools offer ‘opportunities to think creatively’  Southwark News

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8 d. ago Team of barristers lined up by Rachel Reeves to fight High Court case against her school fees tax... are all privately educated themselves

The Chancellor who has previously called private school parents 'snobs' is spending taxpayers' money fighting the legal challenge to her 20% VAT on school fees tax.

Economics

8 d. ago Legal challenge imminent over Labour's VAT raid on private schools in Scotland

Claimants want High Court to say legislation is incompatible with human rights law

Politics

8 d. ago Police investigate report of teacher viewing pornography at Scottish high school

A report of a man viewing sexually-explicit images while at school is being investigated by Police Scotland

Events

8 d. ago Village primary school where relationships with parents are 'fractured' put in special measures

Primary where most pupils don't make progress they should and relationships with parents are "fractured" is put into special measures

Politics

9 d. ago Things to know about the White House investigation into California's law on students and gender

The Trump administration is investigating California's education department over a law that bans school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child's pronoun change

Society

9 d. ago Disgraced staff at special educational needs school shamed after abuse of pupils

One staff member was caught putting a pupil in a headlock while another was found guilty of using an offensive term

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