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8 October 2024

  • Young man walking with suitcase

    Keir Starmer must not yield to rightwing opposition over EU youth mobility

  • Children in a classroom reading.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: An elite Silicon Valley school tests a tech fast

  • Young children painting during an art lesson in a reception class

    School starters born during pandemic lack communication skills, Ofsted says

  • Students walk along a corridor carrying books at Royal High School Bath private school

    Plans to add VAT to private school fees won’t be delayed, says minister

  • Israel-Gaza: one year on
    Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’

  • Special needs funding claims in English schools ‘increasingly being refused’

7 October 2024

  • Daniel Kebede standing with arms folded

    Philosophy could help pupils discuss hard topics such as Gaza war, says NEU

  • Girls playing flag footbal

    ‘The Taylor effect is helping us massively’: UK’s flag footballers aim for Olympic glory

  • Joy Eseoghene Odiete, known as Jodie, with some other mums and special-needs children.

    ‘I don’t want to hide my son’: the Nigerian singer helping mothers find pride in their children with special needs

  • A young person using a mobile phone

    ‘Parents know they are not alone’: UK pact to withhold smartphones until 14 gathers pace

6 October 2024

  • Private school boys

    Doubts grow over Labour’s VAT plan for private schools

  • An empty primary school classroom.

    ‘The community is in the fabric of the building’: as UK pupil numbers fall, what will happen to empty schools?

  • Keir Starmer and Bridget Phillipson perch on a school table, with parents and a toddler in the foreground.

    The Observer view on early years education: Labour must find the money to address the attainment gap

  • Cambridge and Kygyzstan joint expedition huddle round new botanical find on alpine slopes in Krgyzstan. "Cambridge University Botanic Garden is searching for an enthusiastic and dynamic Expedition Botanist to lead our plant-collecting expeditions around the world. This is a unique role that combines international travel, conservation, research, and teaching in a vibrant, supportive team."

    Wanted: expedition botanist to follow in Darwin’s footsteps and look for plants

5 October 2024

  • School hall with rows of pupils taking exams

    Demand for England’s grammar schools falls – despite VAT on school fees

  • A dentist looking at a patient’s teeth.

    Residential school students in England to get free dental, eyesight and hearing checks

4 October 2024

  • Hamish MacGibbon

    Other lives
    Hamish MacGibbon obituary

    Other lives: Educational publisher at Heinemann whose textbooks became market leaders in the UK and internationally
  • Children in a classroom as a teacher writes on the whiteboard

    Private schools say drop in enrolments mainly due to impending VAT on fees

    Survey by Independent Schools Council finds UK pupil numbers down 1.7% compared with 2023
  • 18th-century oil painting of a woman holding a large book, surrounded by young children clamouring about her

    Leading questions
    ‘My teenage children are bright but unmotivated. How much should I get involved with their school work?’

    It’s important to consider why school matters to them, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith – but it might be more valuable to help them develop their sense of self

3 October 2024

  • Pupils writing notes.

    Private London college taught students by showing videos, investigation reveals

    Business students at £9,250-a-year Regent College London raised series of complaints with Office for Students
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