I loved being home schooled (apart from my mum’s sex ed lessons). But are new methods too radical?
Elle Hunt
‘Free-schooling’ is far removed from my experience – and likely to provoke strong views, as one TikTok influencer discovered, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt
Labour’s Bridget Phillipson: ‘I will help working-class pupils defy the odds to succeed – just as I did’
The new education secretary talks about her background, the ‘incredible state schools’ she went to, and her plans to transform the system
Labour makes working-class children key to schools reform
Minister pledges more sports and drama in curriculum review as row deepens over two-child benefit cap
June 2024
D&T could be gone from national curriculum in four years, business leaders warn
The big idea
The big idea: why we need to put death on the curriculum
May 2024
Overseas schools given ‘British’ accreditation despite anti-equality curriculum
UK government allows British private schools in countries like UAE to use BSO kitemark while not teaching about same-sex relationships
Curbs on sex education use pupils as ‘political football’, school leaders say
Conservatives criticised over plans to ban sex and relationship lessons for children under nine in England
Bring back the pleasure of reading in classrooms
Letters: Ruth Allen says the soul has been knocked out of learning English and maths. Plus letters from Amy Lewis and Mary Smith
March 2024
School absences are a sign the curriculum could be failing children
Pupils in Wales perform only as well as disadvantaged children in England – IFS
February 2024
Labour to help schools develop male influencers to combat Tate misogyny
Shadow education secretary says party would help schools train role models as ‘powerful counterbalance’
December 2023
British Sign Language to be offered as GCSE subject
Scottish schools have tumbled from top of the class. This is what went wrong
Sonia Sodha
November 2023
Hong Kong to restructure primary education to make it more ‘patriotic’
New curriculum from 2025 part of push to create sense of national identity among schoolchildren
October 2023
Haters gonna hate … but stars like Taylor Swift can help to make literature pop
Elly McCausland
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Sunak scraps Manchester HS2 leg, plans to stop children today ever legally smoking and says A-levels to be replaced – as it happened
September 2023
There’s no need for a British baccalaureate
Letters: Readers respond to Rishi Sunak’s plan for radical changes to the post-16 curriculum and qualifications
August 2023
Brief letters
Home economics: a recipe to beat obesity
Idaho law hands parents more power in choosing school curriculums. It’s led to major changes
July 2023
Labour’s plan to improve children’s speaking skills gets mixed reaction
Keir Starmer’s oracy policy for England’s schools welcomed – but some teachers wary of what it would means in practice
