The Guardian view on post-16 qualifications: the switch to T-levels has been botched
England’s curriculum review: what education experts want to see
July 2024
Labour’s Bridget Phillipson: ‘I will help working-class pupils defy the odds to succeed – just as I did’
Labour makes working-class children key to schools reform
May 2024
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
March 2024
School absences are a sign the curriculum could be failing children
Government undermined financial education for children in England, Martin Lewis says
December 2023
Scottish schools have tumbled from top of the class. This is what went wrong
Sonia Sodha
Pupils became unwitting guinea pigs of faddish, unproven theories – and paid a high price
October 2023
Haters gonna hate … but stars like Taylor Swift can help to make literature pop
Elly McCausland
I teach the megastar’s lyrics. Adding contemporary material to school curriculums won’t dumb down – it will inspire, says academic Elly McCausland
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
March 2023
Schools’ Stem diversity problem needs systemic solution, say MPs
Report finds students from black Caribbean backgrounds in England ‘acutely’ underrepresented in Stem
February 2023
Quarter of a million children enter secondary school without basic maths and English
Government set to fail target of 90% of children reaching set standard at age 11, research finds
June 2022
A progressive way of teaching history
Letter: Jeremy Waxman responds to David Olusoga saying that history should not be treated as a ‘soft play area’
February 2022
Add genocide of Gypsies to national curriculum, say charities
Forty organisations call for ‘meaningful change’ after Jimmy Carr’s joke about mass murder of Roma and Sinti people
January 2022
UK pupils failed by schools’ teaching of climate crisis, experts say
Many teachers and pupils frustrated over climate education despite ministers’ pledge to prioritise it
October 2021
Letter from a curious parent
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, the Tories vowed to ‘eradicate illiteracy’ years ago. What went wrong?
Michael Rosen
The education secretary should know the phonics system has been around since 2011 and is ‘proven to work’
September 2021
Alan Tudge tells Triple J Anzac Day should not be taught to students as ‘contested’ – video
Australia's education minister says he doesn’t want students to leave school with 'a hatred' of their country, in a ramping up of his rhetoric about the draft national curriculum
July 2021
Schools minister rebuffs calls to decolonise English curriculum
The hardest lesson I’ve learned at uni is how to handle money
March 2021
Hundreds of schools in England sign up for anti-racist curriculum
Grassroots groups, teachers and councils helping to update syllabus after young people demand change
