How Conservative complacency left schools to rot
In 2003 Labour aimed to refurbish all of England’s secondary schools, but in 2010 the Tories dropped the project.
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A state in disrepair
Crumbling schools exemplify an age of private affluence and public squalor.
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Britain’s crumbling schools are the result of an investment crisis
Pupils return to home-education after the Department of Education deems 156 schools structurally unsafe.
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Letter of the week: Curriculum for transformation
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The Eton sixth form scheme misunderstands poverty
The problems in education are too deep-rooted to be solved by headline-grabbing innovations.
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The case for student salaries
Also this week: the unfairness of A-levels and ministers who say results don’t matter.
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Education’s inequality curse
Rishi Sunak has protected the status quo in schools and universities, as the gaps of privilege and geography grow ever…
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Universities are making us stupid
A managerial war is remaking and destroying our once-noble centres of higher education.
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