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Education

25 June 2024

  • Amanda Giles Battle Library, Oxford Road, Reading, RG30 1EE

    The long read
    ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books

    The long read: In 2024, libraries are unofficial creches, homeless shelters, language schools and asylum support providers – filling the gaps left by a state that has reneged on its responsibilities

24 June 2024

  • Observer Tech Monthly OTM gift guide Christmas Xmas November 2015. Tetris lights.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Try this triple Tetris teaser

  • Tetris 1984

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Try this triple Tetris teaser

23 June 2024

  • Blurred image of pupils walking along school corridor

    Poorer high-ability UK children fall behind peers at school from age of 11

  • Maggie Aderin-Pocock smiles as she sits between two pupils at a table

    ‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees

  • Richard Abraham

    Other lives
    Richard Abraham obituary

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    The schools debate is asking all the wrong questions

    Eva Wiseman

22 June 2024

  • Parkfield school in Dorset viewed through a fence

    Flagship free school that cost £35m closes due to lack of pupils

  • Manchester University students walk past the student union

    Next government faces hard choices on English universities, say experts

21 June 2024

  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

    Letters: Readers respond to a call from theatre leaders to challenge the erosion and devaluation of artistic subjects
  • Mum Dad arguing with child stuck in the middle

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My working-class dad sent me to private school – now I feel that I’ve failed him

    You carry a huge burden of guilt, but it was your parents who failed you, not you them. Their damaging expectations meant you never felt loved for who you are
  • Shaniya Odulawa

    Youth Takeover
    I never thought I’d abstain from voting, but many young people will – and can you blame us?

    Shaniya Odulawa
    This election my generation has felt actively vilified. Leaders should fear putting us off mainstream politics for ever, says graduate Shaniya Odulawa

20 June 2024

  • Middle-aged man speaks into a mic.

    ACLU sues Louisiana over requiring the display of Ten Commandments in public schools

    The state recently passed a law requiring that all public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom
  • Lola Okolosie

    Why is the Tory press in a frenzy? Is it WW3 or the climate crisis? No – it’s VAT on private schools

    Lola Okolosie
    Warnings of a looming apocalypse tell us more about Britain than Labour’s modest plan to make education slightly less unequal, says English teacher Lola Okolosie
  • The King’s College London’s Maughan Library on Chancery Lane.

    UK universities valued more than institutions like parliament and BBC, finds survey

    King’s College London poll finds people rank universities behind only the NHS, armed forces and royal family

19 June 2024

  • Manfred Goldberg sitting in a classroom wearing a virtual reality headset

    Holocaust survivors to use AI to ‘future-proof’ their stories for UK schools

    Testimony 360 project allows pupils to talk to AI versions of survivors and take virtual tours of concentration camps
  • Two teenage school girls standing in front of a large whiteboard side by side solving a mathematics equation on the board

    Paying private school fees years ahead may create VAT disputes, experts warn

    Use of advance payment schemes has risen sharply since Labour confirmed plans to end tax break
  • Winchester College, Hampshire.

    Level the playing field? Many state schools don’t have any left

    Letters: Readers respond to a report on the huge discrepancies in outdoor space and facilities between state and private schools

18 June 2024

  • A woman walks by a sign promoting a levelling up scheme high behind her

    ‘Glacial’ progress on levelling up in UK means more resources needed, says thinktank

  • Distant view of Dulwich College in London from playing field and cricket nets.

    The Guardian view on children and green space: private schools need to open up

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