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Education

  • Daniel Kebede poses for a photographic portrait in. shirt and cardigan with his arms folded

    ‘Labour’s honeymoon will be short-lived’: teachers’ union head warns of strikes by autumn

    Daniel Kebede, leader of the NEU, says members’ morale is at an all-time low and that Starmer must signal a radical change in policy
  • ‘The rabbit hole felt like the place to aim at’ … Tilda Swinton.

    ‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’ Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience

  • A media student holds a clipboard in a TV training studio

    Media studies are popular, dynamic and have ‘profound impact’, report says

  • Labour urged to confirm how it will find staff for 100,000 new childcare places

  • Harder to own your first home under the Tories, Rishi Sunak admits – UK politics as it happened

  • The big idea: why we need to put death on the curriculum

  • Why are America’s elite universities so afraid of this scholar’s paper?

  • Labour must halt ‘disastrous’ teacher exodus if it wants to improve schools, heads warn

  • Israel has destroyed or damaged 80% of schools in Gaza. This is scholasticide

    Chandni Desai
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University guide

Universities

  • University graduates

    Number of students flagged for extremist views rises by half

  • A faculty building of Imperial College London.

    UK universities face ‘irreversible decline’, global league table suggests

    • Kenan Malik

      The affluent can have their souls enriched at university, so why not the poor as well?

      Kenan Malik
    • Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton and wax head is on display at UCL in London.

      ‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’

    • Protesters during the Nakba Day protest in London

      Should academic institutions boycott Israel? Two scholars debate

      Flora Cassen and Ilan Pappé
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In depth

  • Rear view of primary school children in class

    ‘Is it fair? No. Is it morally right? Yes.’: parents on private school fee VAT plans

  • Back view of man presenting to students at a lecture theatre

    ‘I see little point’: UK university students on why attendance has plummeted

    About half the students who got in touch skip lectures, with many ‘disappointed’ with the experience and others forced to prioritise paid work
  • National Women in Construction Week<br>BOSTON, MA - MARCH 2: Alicia Miksic. apprentice electrician, bends an electrical pipe with electrician Adam DeFilippo at a work site at Brigham and Women's Hospital emergency department in Boston on March 2, 2020. This week, Skanska employees on construction sites all over Greater Boston are celebrating their female peers and colleagues on the job during national Women in Construction week. Skanska women in construction are welders, project managers, plumbers, carpenters, superintendents and everything in between, helping to build what matters in our communities while paving the way for future generations of female trades and construction workers in the industry. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

    Gen-Z students are choosing a trade over college. That shows they’re smart

    Young people are increasingly opting to train as plumbers, electricians, welders and carpenters and similar vocations
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Opinion

  • Catherine Bennett

    Must we pity put-upon parents sacrificing all to send their offspring to private school?

    Catherine Bennett
  • Simon Jenkins

    Our schools don’t prepare young people for life. National service could change that

    Simon Jenkins
  • General Election campaign 2024<br>Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech to supporters, members and local people during his visit to Lancing in West Sussex, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Monday May 27, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS ElectionLabour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    The Guardian view on Starmer’s offer: the gap between Labour and the Tories should widen

  • Moira Donegan

    Congress’s latest ‘antisemitism’ hearing was an ugly attack on Palestinian rights

    Moira Donegan
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