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Education in crisis

January 2024

  • In 2023, 140,000 children were classed as ‘severely absent’ from school.

    Why 140,000 pupils are ‘severely absent’ from school in England – and what we can do about it

    Redundancies, lack of funding, and a pandemic have all contributed to a huge rise in children missing from class. Now a bold new initiative aims to solve the problem

May 2023

  • Teaching assistants are the ‘unsung heroes’ of the education system, says Paul Whiteman of the NAHT union.

    Low pay ‘forcing teaching assistants out of UK classrooms’

    Three quarters say they feel undervalued and are thinking about quitting, charity warns

April 2023

  • Young girl looks out of a window

    ‘Buckling’ NHS fails to treat 250,000 children with mental health problems

    Exclusive: child mental health crisis deepens with one-third of all referrals denied help

July 2019

  • Paul Stubbings, headteacher at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial school in Holland Park, west London.

    Revealed: how wealthy parents widen cash gap between state schools

    Huge sums are raised by PTAs in affluent areas but headteachers in less well-off districts still struggle for funds

May 2019

  • Sir Michael Wilshaw

    Former Ofsted head says government school funding claims are misleading

    Sir Michael Wilshaw warned progress in school standards was at risk

November 2018

  • Helena Kitchingman, a pupil at The Grove Academy, Harrogate, in an art class with teacher Kate Kersey.

    Small Yorkshire school helping some of most needy pupils faces axe

    Life chances will be blighted says Grove Academy head amid slated 83% funding cut for school serving excluded young

October 2018

  • Gerry McDonald, principal of New City College, London.

    Principal closes college for staff and students to march on Westminster

  • Natasha Petrovic, a carer for her parents, could not have attended the Menuhin school without financial support.

    Music school grants for poor students going to ‘comfortable middle class’

September 2018

  • James Tooley, professor of education policy at Newcastle University.

    Low-cost, no-frills Durham private school attacked by teachers

  • Thousands protest for higher teacher pay and school funding on 26 April in Phoenix.

    American public schools need help. To achieve change, we need to vote

    Randi Weingarten

August 2018

  • Headteacher in front of green and village school

    School cuts: ‘Children now raise money for their own education’

    Funding crisis means some UK headteachers spend more than 50% of their time seeking charity for essential subjects

May 2018

  • Fiona Millar

    This zombie grammar school policy will only harm crisis-hit schools

    Fiona Millar
    Damian Hinds’s plan to give £50m to expand the selective system smacks of Tory desperation

December 2017

  • Composition with books and cup of coffee on the table<br>CTWPK8 Composition with books and cup of coffee on the table

    Lessons from 2017: what tips and tricks have helped you be a better teacher?

    As the end of the year approaches, we’d like to hear from teachers who’ve made changes that have dramatically improved their time at school and home

October 2017

  • School stationery

    Supply teachers: ‘I spend £1,000 a year on materials for my pupils’

    New research shows that 94% of staff pay for essential classroom materials. Five teachers describe how the schools funding crisis is leaving them out of pocket

July 2017

  • Teachers on strike outside Forest Hill school in Lewisham, south London

    One out, all out! The school where cuts are pushing teachers to the brink

    The school funding crisis is being felt all over the country, with cutbacks, redundancies and parents being asked to donate cash, pencils and glue sticks. But at one school in south London, teachers have been on the picket lines throughout the year. Is this a taste of things to come?

June 2017

  • Children in a classroom

    School funding soars up election agenda as teachers warn of crisis

    Shortage of cash for teachers, and even books, will influence parents’ votes, YouGov survey finds

February 2017

  • Fiona Millar

    It’s simple: a huge injection of cash is needed before school funding can be fair

    Fiona Millar
    Just-about-managing families are attending schools that are not managing at all, says Fiona Millar

January 2017

  • Laura McInerney

    You can see cuts in the NHS but the cuts in schools are just as dire

    Laura McInerney
    Schools are heading towards mass bankruptcy yet no one photographs the damage done to children | Laura McInerney

September 2016

  • Esther

    'I want to be South Sudan's first female neurosurgeon' – the struggle for refugee education

    Melissa Fleming
    Education for refugees is often seen as an optional extra. But getting refugee children into school will help them to thrive, not just to survive

July 2016

  • Claire Hill and pupils

    School's out for ever: a tale of two teachers

    Amid a recruitment crisis and four in 10 new staff quitting, we talk to a teacher with 39 years at the same school – and another with just one
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