Leader: The end of the comprehensive
The plan to transform schools into academies is just the latest evidence that this government has no coherent education policy.
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Is Ofsted scrutinising faith schools properly?
The recent case of an Orthodox Jewish school that went from Ofsted’s very highest ranking to its lowest within one…
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Head in the cloud
As we download ever more of our lives on to electronic devices, are we destroying our own internal memory?
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Leader: We must defend free debate in our universities
To no-platformers, a campus should be a “safe space”, where people are not exposed to views that they may find…
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As children face a mental health crisis, should schools take the lead in fighting it?
There is a crisis affecting the mental health of England’s young people. As Children’s Mental Health Week gets underway, the…
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Why Oxford has so few black students, and who is to blame
In 2014, a black student applying to Oxford was half as likely to get in as a white student. Whose…
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Rhodes isn’t falling at Oxford, but universities’ racist curriculums still could
The Rhodes Must Fall campaign isn’t just about a statue – as much as it suits Rhodes’ defenders to act like…
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What the SNP doesn’t understand about tuition fees
An SNP MP is condemning Westminster for leading the poorest students to graduate with the most debt – her party’s own policy.
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