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Education

  • Children in a classroom reading.

    TechScape: An elite Silicon Valley school tests a tech fast

    TechScape’s new writer; the surprising results of a $60k-a-year school’s tech-free week; and how to opt yourself out of AI training
  • 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

  • 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’

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

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

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

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

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In depth

  • 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?

  • Families pull their children out of school because they feel they aren’t getting the support they need.

    ‘I felt absolutely lost’: the crisis behind the rising number of UK children being homeschooled

    Anxiety is the most common reason why parents choose to take pupils out of school
  • Carla Denyer speaks behind a podium next to Nigel Farage

    If Eton can do it … Public speaking advice from state-educated experts

    As state schools are called upon to improve pupils’ debating skills, how can students build their confidence?
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Opinion

  • 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

  • Mom and her three kids looking at an ipad together

    The Guardian view on the other influencers: a golden era for science education

  • Peter Mandelson

    Universities are in a hole: linking student fees to inflation is the fairest way forward

    Peter Mandelson
  • A teacher standing at a whiteboard as several pupils observe a lesson and raise their hands

    Curriculum restrictions in US public schools hurt teachers and students alike

    Stacey Abrams and Randi Weingarten
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