The private school system allows the wealthiest to benefit at the expense of the majority, says Michael PykeIt is ridiculously inappropriate to compare “luxury homes, cars, exotic holidays” with the fees for private schools (Letters, 12 February). Good education is...
More and more children are being excluded, as the system gives up on young people – with dire consequencesIf a playground had a faulty swing that was regularly injuring children, what would be the right response? Line up...
The Indiana school superintendent who was arrested for allegedly using her own insurance to help a sick student resigned on Friday.Casey Smitherman, superintendent of Elwood Community Schools, reportedly resigned at a school board meeting and said she was "embarrassed" by the situation."I have dedicated my entire...
Hundreds of children withdrawn from Parkfield community school for dayA primary school that taught pupils about homosexuality as part of a programme to challenge homophobia has stopped the lessons after hundreds of children were withdrawn by parents in protest.Parkfield...
I was told to ‘shut up’ when I tried to blow the whistle on my university for recruiting international students for cashAfew years ago, while working in a business school, I was the academic in my department responsible...
Taking away the ‘fear factor’ could help raise the profile of science, technology, engineering and maths careers – especially among female pupilsHow to encourage more young people, particularly female students, to study science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects...
To slip the confines of reality for 15 or 20 minutes is a superpower too few of our schools are nurturingFor many young people today, books are only for school and exams – the notion of reading for...
Teacher poverty is now so acute that the Victorian charity helping them is running on its reservesIt was winning a national Teaching Award and getting a pay rise in recognition of her outstanding work that, paradoxically, inflicted the final blow...
Court of appeal finds Prevent guidelines on inviting controversial speakers violate freedom of speechThe government’s Prevent duty guidance to universities is unlawful and must be rewritten, judges have ruled after a successful judicial review argued that it violated freedom...
7,000 headteachers sending letter home with pupils accusing DfE of refusing to face effects of cutsThe education secretary, Damian Hinds, has been criticised by the headteachers’ campaigning group Worth Less? for refusing to meet headteachers and hear first-hand their struggles...
