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Private schools

September 2024

  • Schoolchildren playing football on private school playing fields

    Private schools urged to share grounds to help UK children access green spaces

  • Half of state school teachers say they have neither the time nor training to encourage debate.

    State schools should set up debating clubs, says senior Eton leader

  • Rachel Reeves in Downing Street last week.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened

  • Student using a calculator in an exam

    IGCSE maths preparation is easier than GCSE

  • There is no evidence that GCSEs are harder than IGCSEs

  • Brief letters
    A thrifty way to redecorate Downing Street

August 2024

  • Pupils seen from behind walking into a courtyard at Eton college

    Eton to raise fees to £63,000 per annum in response to VAT change

  • A sign for James Allen's girls' school outside the school building

    Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school win dispute over pay and conditions

  • Pupils sitting an exam

    The real unfairness and scandal of GCSE exams

  • Pupils at Ark Pioneer academy in Barnet, north London, receive their GCSE results

    England’s GCSE results show ingrained social and regional inequality post-Covid

  • Top A-level grades are up – but worrying regional disparities remain

  • Education secretary warns of ‘baked-in’ inequality in English school system

July 2024

  • The Olympic Rings at Stade de France, Paris, ahead of the rugby sevens.

    Third of Team GB athletes for Paris Olympics educated privately

    Study finds 33.3% of squad went to private schools, up nine percentage points from 24% in 2016 team
  • Pupils in a classroom

    The Guardian view on the widening attainment gap: poorer children need a boost

    Editorial: The progress made by pupils from lower-income families has been wiped out – and it’s not all the pandemic’s fault

    • Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school vote to strike over cut in hours

    • Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

    • Students under near constant surveillance at Exclusive Brethren-linked schools, insiders claim

June 2024

  • John Harris

    Prepare for the toppling of private school politics – and a cultural change within Westminster

    John Harris
    Extreme class privilege informed the Tories’ worst decisions. This Labour cabinet would represent something very different, says the Guardian columnist John Harris
  • Simon Jenkins

    Message to Labour: don’t tax school fees. Make private schools work for the public good

    Simon Jenkins
    Finding a balance between privatisation and nationalisation has defied past governments – the party must make this its mission, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Prince William, King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with his wife Akshata Murty applaud at a D-Day event in Portsmouth

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking – podcast

    Marina Hyde on poor Rishi, who had to go without a Sky subscription as a teenager; Chris Godfrey spent a decade trying to quit smoking, then he tried hypnotherapy and it changed his life; when Jordan Hatmaker pulled the string of her parachute, she realised something was very wrong; and ‘My grownup son is gaming all day and lives on takeaways’ - Philippa Perry offers advice to a mother
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