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    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      UK politics
      Sunak’s A-levels reform ‘out of touch with reality’, union warns

      Education overhaul will require thousands more teachers at a time of staffing shortfalls, says NEU leader

      School studnets learning A-level spanish
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour says it will not strip private schools of charitable status

      Party officials shift focus to making independent schools pay VAT and business rates in event they win power

      School children walk down stairs
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Sunak’s worthy A-level reforms held back by fantasies on tax

      While there is cross-party support for a ‘British baccalaureate’, PM is yet to get ball rolling in any meaningful way

      Rishi Sunak being interviewed in a school
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Sunak plans to overhaul A-level system with ‘British baccalaureate’

      UK prime minister set to propose sweeping changes to education in England as he battles for re-election

      An A-level class studying Spanish
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign28 min
      Why the UK has a problem with maths | FT Film

      Is the maths taught in our schools helping or hindering numeracy levels in later life?

    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      UK north-south divide
      Lagging school spending for north of England poses risk to economy, study warns

      MPs and experts say educational attainment in region has been hit by insufficient financial support after Covid

      Uniformed children walking to school
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      School chaos shows the price of Britain’s addiction to shortcuts

      Dodgy materials and poor construction typify a desire to drive down public sector costs via opaque contracts

      Illustration of two children in school uniform standing outside a doorway with red-and-white tape strung across it looking into a derelict classroom where the ceiling is propped up with scaffolding
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Britain’s crumbling public buildings

      Risks of lightweight concrete in schools are symptomatic of a wider problem

      A worker carries out repairs to a school in Leicester. The National Audit Office warned in June that 700,000 pupils were at schools needing major rebuilding or refurbishment
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      John Thornhill
      ‘Edtech’ offers no escape from reality

      Experiments in virtual teaching could turn a digital divide into an educational one

      A boy wears a virtual reality headset in a classroom
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Why does Britain have a crumbling concrete problem?

      Because of ageing buildings, the school estate is in more need of work than the NHS

      Students arrive at Corpus Christi Catholic School in London, Britain, 04 September 2023.
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Sunak defends record over crumbling concrete in England’s schools

      Prime minister says government is moving ‘decisively’ to ease crisis but Labour steps up criticism in Commons

      Rishi Sunak
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      UK’s school buildings failure goes back decades, data shows

      Capital outlay has fallen short for a long time punctuated by occasional bursts of spending

      A taped off section inside Parks Primary School in Leicester
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Sunak accused of cutting budget to rebuild schools as chancellor

      Decision was made despite recommendation to repair twice as many buildings in the UK

      Rishi Sunak
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      The numbers behind London’s free school lunch scheme

      A programme to offer meals to all primary school students is rolling out in the capital. But there are bumps in the road

      Montage image of a plate of food, some coins adding up to £2.65 and a line graph
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Inside Politics
      School building closures are political disaster for Sunak’s government

      Former top civil servant’s claim PM had cut funding to fix school problems when chancellor makes it a personal problem too

      Rishi Sunak in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Hunt pledges to spend ‘what it takes’ to fix UK’s crumbling schools

      Labour criticises ‘bare bones’ response to deepening crisis concerning safety of education estate

      Jeremy Hunt
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      UK councils rush to find alternative classrooms after emergency school closures

      Government pledges to cover costs linked with collapse-prone concrete days before new term starts

      Scaffolding on the exterior of the school building
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Over 100 schools in England ordered to close buildings over safety concerns

      Government intervention comes just days before the start of a new academic year

      UK education secretary Gillian Keegan
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      FT Magazine
      From leaking roofs to queues for scraps, one year in a British school

      Battered by the pandemic and the rising cost of living, UK schools like Newman Roman Catholic College in Oldham are at the front line of a profound national crisis

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Inside Politics
      UK sobers up to flaws of algorithms in policy

      Automated forms of decision making can be poorly applied, with potential to hit disadvantaged groups

      Students protest in central London in 2020 against the downgrading of A-level results
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Share of top GCSE grades falls sharply after return to pre-pandemic exams

      Proportion of level 7 or above marks awarded fall to 22% from 26.3%

      A student opens his GCSE results at Ffynone House School in Swansea, Wales, on Thursday
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      UK exam boards make sharp cuts to top A-level grades

      Return to pre-pandemic marking causes A and A* grades to fall to 27.2% of total, down 9 percentage points

      Students react after receiving their A-level results at Ark Acton Academy in west London. The fall in A and A* grades in the UK equated to 73,000 fewer top marks in 2023
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Scotland
      Scottish Highers pass rate falls as exams return to pre-Covid standards

      Results signal examiners’ shift away from more ‘generous’ approach to assessment, says regulator

      Three girls reading exam results
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      Teaching unions call off strikes in England after accepting pay offer

      Government says vote by four unions in favour of 6.5% rise is ‘good news’

      Teachers and other public sector workers demonstrating in London earlier this year
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Pupil exodus ‘unlikely’ if Labour ends tax perks for UK private schools, says IFS

      Think-tank expects opposition party’s education policy will raise less money than predicted

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