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  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    Camilla Cavendish
    Extremists on both sides are exploiting the Batley school row

    Respect for religious beliefs must come with protection for free speech and a balanced education

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    England’s elite private schools face reputational damage over sex claims

    Lawyers warn of wave of litigation for some of country’s best-known educational establishments

  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    Emergency review of sexual abuse in English schools to be launched

    Move follows more than 10,000 anonymous accounts of ‘rape culture’ being posted on Everyone’s Invited website

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Return to school playing key role in slowing fall in UK Covid cases

    Debate under way on whether to let virus ‘run hot’ as pressure on hospitals eases

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    Education secretary urges abuse victims to report their experiences

    Williamson responds to 8,000 testimonies on Everyone’s Invited site set up to document schools’ ‘rape culture’

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    Pandemic funding for English primary schools absorbed by other cuts

    Union survey shows change to date to calculate ‘pupil premium’ cuts cash for disadvantaged children

  • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
    Disadvantaged pupils hit by ‘discriminatory’ English funding change

    Failure to take account of children recently pushed on to free meals means schools will miss out on millions of pounds

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Johnson warns return to classroom will spark rise in infections

    Prime minister welcomes English schools reopening but rules out accelerating lifting of third lockdown

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    UK minister plans post-pandemic schools shake-up

    Williamson says attempts to help children catch up could be opportunity to galvanise system

  • Promoted Content
  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
    Teachers grapple with how to help students scarred by pandemic

    Getting pupils back into the classroom is just start of push to close ‘learning gap’

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    News in-depth
    Parents face Monday’s return to school with trepidation

    Government decision to defy calls for phased restart unnerves families, and teachers, despite stress of home schooling

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: what is the point of schools?

    After a year of Covid disruption, it is time to rethink our attitude to education

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Work & Careers
    Ideas flow as an orchestra and school team up

    When classical musicians took up residence in a London comprehensive, it sparked an exchange of skills

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    UK universities
    UK universities brace for A-level grade inflation

    Projections suggest colleges might have to find places for 15% more students than usual after 2021 exams cancelled

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    Williamson puts teachers in charge of GCSE and A-level grades

    Education secretary aims to avoid last year’s exams fiasco in England by banishing algorithms

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    England’s schools to receive £400m to help pupils’ lost learning

    Government aid allocation is in addition to £1.3bn already earmarked

  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
    Headteachers warn of delay to full reopening of England’s schools

    Testing pupils for coronavirus could push back restarting all classes to 3rd week of March

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    The hard lessons of home schooling

    ‘There have been moments when 1.5bn children were missing school. This is apocalyptic’

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    Unions and governors urge cautious reopening of schools in England

    As Johnson prepares to announce return educators seek to manage move through rotas to cut overcrowding

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Johnson looks at staggering school reopening with secondaries delayed

    Scientists have warned that simultaneous move could push R number back above 1

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    School catch-up in England could take 5 years, says education recovery tsar

    Sir Kevan Collins warns process will require more funding and ‘creative’ changes to curriculum

  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    How to make up for lost school time

    Months of missed classroom lessons will have long-term consequences

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    UK business & economy
    School closures pose big risk to earnings and tax revenue

    Think-tank says children’s future income could be hit by reduced in-person teaching

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Schools in England to remain closed until at least early March

    Government to provide additional resources to help students catch up

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Johnson promises clarity on England school reopenings ‘as soon as we can’

    Pressure grows on PM from his own party amid doubts over original return date after February half-term

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