Gordon Brown calls on ministers not to scrap T-level qualification
Conservatives had announced end of vocational qualification introduced in 2020, while Labour plans to review it
June 2024
Working-class kids are being denied a second chance at education
Letters: Yvonne Williams on adult education that is now virtually nonexistent, and Geoff Reid on the non-financial value of a degree
April 2024
Let’s end the annual torture of GCSE resits – and give students qualifications they’ll actually use
Polly Toynbee
Compulsory maths and English retakes speak of a system that ignores pupils’ real talents. But hope is on the horizon, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
March 2024
The Guardian view on young people’s mental health: this decline must be reversed
Other lives
Ciarán ‘KO’ Ennis obituary
February 2024
The manifesto Britain needs
The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back
Polly Toynbee
Other lives
Bernard Godding obituary
January 2024
Let’s rekindle the spirit of 1924: lifelong learning for all
Letters: John Holford reflects on the funding for adult education enabled by the first Labour government a century ago, and hopes for something similar today. Plus letters from Ian Barge,Jennifer Basannavar and Jenny Braithwaite
November 2023
Ofsted has failed us for 30 years. Can it be fixed?
Letters: Bernard Clarke tries to imagine a better education system, while Rosalind Harrison reveals how Ofsted impacts apprenticeship providers. Plus letters from Dan Willis and Simon Clements
October 2023
Sunak’s plan to ditch A-levels is out of touch with reality, says union
Head of National Education Union says new qualification would need 5,300 additional teachers in England
September 2023
Other lives
Dame Patricia Morgan-Webb obituary
Other lives: A dynamic force within the further education sector in England and the first college principal to receive a damehood for services to FE
August 2023
Other lives
Tricia Tyler obituary
Other lives: Editor of Nursing Times and lecturer in journalism
Brit school plan for northern England gets go-ahead
Specialist creative college on model of Croydon institution that nurtured Adele and Amy Winehouse to be sited in Bradford
Art out, business in and boys closing the gap: what’s changed in this year’s A-levels
A-level results reflect inequalities across England after challenging years
A-level students in England may miss out as stricter grading returns
July 2023
Vocational T-levels offer England’s students poor value, Ofsted says
Report criticises ‘range of shortcomings’ in qualifications intended to be equivalent to A-levels
Greater Manchester is revolutionising technical education – whether London likes it or not
Andy Burnham
Government disdain for our region’s new baccalaureate proves that it knows little about what our young people need, says Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham
Further education students in England hit by ‘extreme poverty’, report finds
Decade of cumulative funding cuts means colleges lack resources to meet students’ needs, says report
June 2023
Britain behaving badly
‘There’s spitting, foul language’: the reality of working in a college in badly behaved Britain
The pandemic shrank the world for many students. Now, anything unfamiliar prompts either anxiety or aggression
