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17 September 2024

  • Schoolchildren playing football on private school playing fields

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

    Head of sports charity hails partnership that allows local people to use London independent school’s football pitch

16 September 2024

  • A child under a blanket playing with a smartphone

    The Guardian view on children and smartphones: setting some limits is a good idea

    Editorial: Mobile phone use is not the biggest issue facing schools – or society. But device-free time is important
  • Graphic composite of black-and-white images of five teenagers.

    Fentanyl was killing their friends – and no one was talking about it. So these teens stepped up

    As fake pills send teen overdose deaths skyrocketing, these high schoolers are filling an information void with films and peer-to-peer education
  • 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

    Jonathan Noakes also suggests training teachers to encourage discussion, as government focuses on oracy

13 September 2024

  • Year 11 pupils Eddie Sheppard, Arthur Hall and James Burns

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

    Exclusive: Ormiston academies trust says impact of smartphones on learning and mental health has been ‘catastrophic’
  • Vicki Dean, principal of Tenbury High academy

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

    At Tenbury High students play tag rather than stare at screens after it brought in one of toughest phone policies
  • Aerial view of an invigilator walking past rows of pupils wearing school uniform sitting an exam

    Experts raise concerns over ‘unreliable’ marking of GCSE English

    Some high-achieving pupils in England received lower than expected grades that rose after being re-marked

12 September 2024

  • Manar Al Khodari

    By bombing Gaza’s schools, Israel is taking aim at my future. But it will not succeed

    Manar Al Khodari
  • A group of secondary school children in school uniform

    New guidelines issued to reduce cost of school uniforms in Scotland

  • Four young schoolchildren eating in a cafeteria

    The US should join other nations in giving public schoolkids free breakfast and lunch

    Katrina vanden Heuvel
  • Malorie Blackman

    UK English curricula should focus on ‘inclusive and diverse’ stories, author says

11 September 2024

  • John Swinney delivers a statement at Holyrood: he has a hand raised and looks animated as one woman claps in the background and another looks down at her notes

    Scottish opposition pushes Swinney on free school meal and flat-rate rail fare cuts

  • Keir Starmer takes questions from children in a year three class: he faces the children and three small girls in red jumpers are seen from behind with their hands up.

    Starmer urged to restore community cohesion programmes in schools

  • Teenage boy studying online

    Online learning can’t replace being in school

  • A protester dressed as bishop in a night-time march

    Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’

10 September 2024

  • A class full of primary school children at their desks

    UK primary class sizes among biggest in industrialised world, report finds

    Only Chile exceeds UK’s 27 pupils a class in OECD study, with UK pupil-teacher ratio also among highest
  • An illustration of a school lunch tray

    School food fights
    A comic guide to what changed (and what didn’t) for US school lunches

    This year, the USDA put some limits on added sugars for the first time. But changes face robust resistance
  • Steve Turner

    Why stop at breakfast? We paediatricians think all of England’s primary pupils should have lunch for free

    Steve Turner
    There are increasing numbers of children with chronic health conditions. It must be on Labour’s menu to help them, says Steve Turner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

9 September 2024

  • 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

  • NHS staff using computers.

    ‘Serious disruption’ possible in hospitals with expiring PFI contracts, report says

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