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  • An empty classroom during lockdown.

    Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures

    GCSE results in key subjects to steadily worsen until 2030, predicts research that blames failure to tackle impact of schools lockdown
  • Rishi Sunak talking to young children at a table in a nursery as they do colouring in

    England childcare scheme may struggle to deliver places, finds ‘damning’ report

  • Polly Toynbee

    The expansion of free childcare has been a Tory-fied mess of a bright Labour idea

    Polly Toynbee
  • Dozens arrested at Yale and NYU as pro-Palestinian student protests spread

  • ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

  • Columbia faculty members walk out after pro-Palestinian protesters arrested

  • Israel, Gaza and divestment: why are Columbia students protesting?

  • As an actor, I know the value of culture. As West Yorkshire’s mayor, I’ll use it to enrich lives and provide jobs

    Tracy Brabin
  • The Guardian view on school exclusions: to help children, gaps in the system must be closed

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  • Morehouse College campus gate.

    Biden’s planned Morehouse College commencement speech spurs alumni protest

  • Rosie Anfilogoff

    Higher education was easily accessible to disabled people during Covid. Why are we being shut out now?

    Rosie Anfilogoff
    • Goldsmiths, University of London, in New Cross

      The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral

    • Jane Ohlmeyer and colleagues examine documents

      How the dung queen of Dublin was swept from history

    • Writer Bernardine Evaristo at the Hay festival in 2022

      Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA

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In depth

  • Maxine Nwaneri - Author - shot for OM

    ‘I now know that anything is possible’: from a women’s shelter to Cambridge University

  • Muslim student loses prayer ban challenge at Michaela school, Wembley, London, UK - 16 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock (14438163c) A general view of Michaela school in London. A Muslim student at Michaela school has lost a High Court challenge against its ban on prayer rituals. Muslim student loses prayer ban challenge at Michaela school, Wembley, London, UK - 16 Apr 2024

    ‘Soaked and muddy’: British Muslims tell their stories of prayer at school

    Students speak out after a pupil lost her legal challenge against a top London school after it brought in a ban to promote social cohesion
  • ‘It’s always strange in a virtual setting – it’s like you’re watching yourself take the test in the mirror.’

    Are your kids being spied on? The rise of anti-cheating software in US schools

    Remote proctoring tools have faced pushback at colleges over privacy and discrimination concerns, but their use in K-12 schools has attracted less scrutiny
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Opinion

  • Polly Toynbee

    Let’s end the annual torture of GCSE resits – and give students qualifications they’ll actually use

    Polly Toynbee
  • Terri White

    Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be brave – and revitalise it

    Terri White
  • Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, leaders of the "Bring back our girls" campaign group, discuss during their visit to the Presidential villa Abuja<br>Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, leaders of the "Bring back our girls" campaign group, discuss during their visit to the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, January 14, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

    #BringBackOurGirls fought to keep global attention on Nigeria’s stolen Chibok girls. Ten years on it is still fighting

    Helon Habila
  • Nadeine Asbali

    Michaela school will keep its prayer ban – but as a Muslim teacher I know it doesn’t have to be this way

    Nadeine Asbali
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