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Richard Adams

Richard Adams is the Guardian's education editor. Follow him on Twitter: @RichardA

October 2024

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

    School starters born during pandemic lack communication skills, Ofsted says

  • Pupils putting their hands up in class

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

  • Children in a classroom as a teacher writes on the whiteboard

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

  • Pupils writing notes.

    Private London college taught students by showing videos, investigation reveals

September 2024

  • Graduates at Birmingham University

    Aim for 70% tertiary education takeup by 2040, say UK university chiefs

  • Peter Mandelson looking to the side while smiling

    Raise tuition fees to ease pressure on English universities, says Peter Mandelson

  • School girls using microscopes during a science lesson at Pates Grammar School in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire UK<br>D20187 School girls using microscopes during a science lesson at Pates Grammar School in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire UK

    Grammar schools in England must publish details on entry tests, tribunal rules

  • A male teacher talking to a female pupil at her desk in a classroom

    ‘A brave new world for educators’: teachers respond to nine-day-fortnight proposals

  • ‘Incredibly disheartening’ decline in special needs pupil attainment in England

  • English universities offer to curb foreign students if they can raise tuition fees

  • Academy chain with 35,000 pupils to be first in England to go phone-free

  • How going phone-free taught pupils at English secondary ‘to socialise, old school’

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer as he outlines vision for health service – as it happened

  • Leading universities urged to take no more than 10% of students from private schools

  • New guidelines issued to reduce cost of school uniforms in Scotland

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened

  • Impact of Covid lockdowns to disrupt England’s schools into the 2030s, report says

  • UK’s science minister declares end to Tory ‘war on universities’

  • University Guide 2025
    Ones to watch: three rising stars of this year’s university guide

  • University Guide 2025
    Labour’s ‘change of tone’ revives foreign students’ interest in UK universities

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