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March 2023

  • Parents Against Ofsted members Amanda Bentham (holding a sign reading "Ofsted not fit for purpose!") next to George Binette and James Denny (holding photos of Ruth Perry)

    ‘My colleague had a heart attack in front of me’: horrific toll of Ofsted inspections

  • Jackie Moore

    Other lives
    Jackie Moore obituary

  • A photograph of Ruth Perry, who her family say took her own life after a critical Ofsted inspection, attached to the fence outside a school in Newbury, Berkshire

    Punishing Ofsted regime is driving us out of education, say school leaders

  • Rebecca Leek

    Teachers live in fear of Ofsted’s punitive inspections. It needs reforming now

    Rebecca Leek

February 2023

  • The day I decided to strike
    Losing our art teacher was the final straw: I knew I had to strike for the sake of my students

    James McAsh
    Growing class sizes, unqualified staff, much-loved subjects disappearing – this government is happy to offer children the bare minimum. We teachers are not, says primary school teacher James McAsh

January 2023

  • Mary Bousted of the National Education Union launches the 'Pay Up, Save Our Schools' campaign in London.

    Teachers’ strike in England and Wales to go ahead after talks fail

    Union accuses education secretary of ‘squandering opportunity’ to avert planned action on Wednesday
  • Members of the EIS and NASUWT unions on a picket line at Craigmount high school in Edinburgh

    Prelim exams rescheduled as Scottish teachers strike for second day

    Secondary schools shut across Scotland, before 16 consecutive days of action from next week in row over pay
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    It’s multiple choice time for ruthless Starmer: will he retain or scrap tuition fees?

    Gaby Hinsliff
    As the state of education comes under scrutiny, Labour’s leader faces some hard choices over the promises he made in 2020, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

December 2022

  • Sue Vermes, Headteacher/Principal of Rose Hill Primary School, Oxford. Photograph by David Levene

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2022: ‘Parents are frightened for themselves and for their children’: an inspirational school in impossible times – podcast

    From September: Austerity, the pandemic and now the cost of living crisis have left many schools in a parlous state. How hard do staff have to work to give kids the chances they deserve? By Aida Edemariam
  • Primary school pupils in Wales

    Parents in Wales lose legal fight against ‘woke’ sex education in primary schools

    Judge at Cardiff hearing rejects families’ complaint, saying relationships curriculum does not advocate any one gender identity
  • Campaigners from Send National Crisis

    Schools crisis in England as special needs staff quit ‘in droves’ over pay

    Observer survey shows half of state schools struggle to recruit vital teaching assistants

September 2022

  • Tim Briggs for Other Lives

    Other lives
    Tim Briggs obituary

    Other lives: Librarian and music teacher with a love of performing, from theatre to chamber choirs

August 2022

  • Graphic montage of a studenting look at a phone with a far-right gang and a schoolyard in the background

    Teachers in England ‘fear they are missing signs of far-right radicalisation’

    Headteachers say pandemic has worsened extremism among pupils as staff call for more training

May 2022

  • A young make teacher explains some workings for his maths class UK<br>W9M0P0 A young make teacher explains some workings for his maths class UK

    Maths doesn’t need a rebrand. We should celebrate its diversity and complexity

    Letter: Prof Ulrike Tillmann on Andy Haldane’s suggestion that maths could be rebranded as numeracy to make it more approachable
  • Stressed teacher

    Observer letters
    Letters: how teaching became unrewarded and unrewarding

    Overworked and underpaid: no wonder today’s teachers – men and women – are feeling disillusioned
  • Matthew Roberts. London. Photograph by David Levene 20/6/19

    Why teachers quit: ‘I have friends up north who can’t afford their heating bill’

    Matthew Roberts, who wrote a play about the stresses of teaching, says he understands why people are leaving the profession

April 2022

  • Margaret Clowes

    Other lives
    Margaret Clowes obituary

    Other lives: Longtime volunteer who, despite losing hearing in one ear and suffering lung damage as a baby, had an infectious zest for life

March 2022

  • Nadeine Asbali

    Child Q’s school failed her – teachers must not become an extension of the police

    Nadeine Asbali
  • Primary school assembly

    Senior teachers will endure long pay freeze under DfE plans, study finds

January 2022

  • Margaret Ewan

    Other lives
    Margaret Ewan obituary

    Other lives: Art and design teacher affectionately known as ‘Ma Ewan’
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