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    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      College leaders in England sound alarm on T-levels

      Concerns raised over implementation as other vocational qualifications are defunded

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      MyBnk calls for 30 hours a year of financial education in UK schools

      Only two-fifths of young people are deemed financially literate, says charity

    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      UK Covid catch-up scheme at risk over poor funding, say education groups

      Headteachers’ union warns National Tutoring Programme will ‘die’ if ministers push ahead with cut in lessons subsidy

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      Hopes of resolution in NHS dispute in England as GMB accepts pay offer

      But teaching unions announce plans for fresh classroom strike ballots as public sector disputes continue

    • Saturday, 22 April, 2023
      Lucy Kellaway
      Forcing maths on teenagers is cruel and counterproductive

      Rishi Sunak would be better focusing on primary schools than making students study the subject to age 18

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Charity warns of UK maths gender gap

      Women express less confidence than men in National Numeracy survey

    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Education leaders accuse Sunak of failure to deliver on maths pledge

      Headteachers criticise ‘vague’ detail around government’s flagship numeracy push

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      Jemima Kelly
      In defence of Oxbridge

      Do we really want to turn getting a good education into something that people should feel embarrassed about?

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      UK Treasury to provide extra funding for NHS pay deal

      Hope that any resolution may aid other public sector settlements, but schools dispute still acrimonious

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Lucy Kellaway
      Sweep away Ofsted grading and allow teachers to teach

      On joining the profession I was taught to fear the inspector’s call — it destroys morale and inhibits recruitment to fill shortages

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      Teachers in England demand ‘healthy and fair’ inspection system

      Unions and school heads call for Ofsted to scrap ‘harsh’ rating system and value personal wellbeing in wake of Ruth Perry’s suicide

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Education
      International schools shift to new markets after China boom stalls

      Countries such as India, Nigeria and Japan lure global education providers and prestigious UK institutions

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Bank bonuses
      How does your 2023 bonus measure up?

      FT poll shows more readers are stashing any bonus cash rather than splashing it on luxuries

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      UK public services
      UK public services need more cash to arrest further decline, says damning report

      Situation will be even harder for whoever wins next election, finds Institute for Government

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Britain’s schools fail legal requirement to teach money matters

      Two-fifths of teachers do not know financial literacy is compulsory in secondary education

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      Sobering drama Consent shows how schoolboy banter can turn violent

      Channel 4’s ‘factual drama’ draws on real data to paint a worrying picture of sexual misconduct in UK schools

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Lucy Heller
      Teachers’ strike lays bare the heartbreaking plight of schools

      When disadvantaged pupils fall behind, the untapped potential is not just a moral disaster but an economic one too

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      UK braced for biggest strike day since 2011 as ministers resist pay rises

      Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers set to walk out on Wednesday in co-ordinated action

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Teachers’ strike exposes deficiencies in Britain’s education system

      Achievement, attendance and recruitment levels fail to recover from Covid’s battering

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      UK braced for biggest day of strikes this winter

      Workers from rail, teaching and university sectors to walk out on February 1 in co-ordinated action over pay

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      ChatGPT will force school exams out of the dark ages

      Too much of our testing regime still remains fixated on being able to regurgitate information

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      Teachers in England and Wales vote to strike over pay

      Biggest education union announces seven days of walkouts in February and March

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Claer Barrett
      Why do Brits hate maths? Go figure

      Poor numeracy is a problem, but Rishi Sunak needs to show his workings for compulsory maths until age 18

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      England’s teachers warn extra funding needed to make maths compulsory until 18

      Educators welcome government plans but say without investment proposal is ‘unachievable’

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      IB TOK class - Simon Schama: art versus the tyrants

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