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Education

  • Bridget Phillipson in her new departmental office.

    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
  • Bridget Phillipson, the new education secretary, takes part in art activities with pupils during a visit to a nursery in Croydon, south London.

    Labour makes working-class children key to schools reform

  • Blurred image of pupils moving up a staircase of a secondary comprehensive school

    English schools to phase out ‘cruel’ behaviour rules as Labour plans major education changes

  • Pay bodies to recommend 5.5% rise for teachers and NHS staff, report says

  • Farewell, Ucas personal statements: I won’t miss your hackneyed, cliche-ridden prose

    Max Fletcher

  • Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report

  • Judge throws out rightwing affirmative action lawsuit against Texas university

  • Summer holiday childcare in UK now costs £1,000 a child, research finds

  • UK graduates: tell us how your job hunt has been going

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University guide

Universities

  • Simon Jenkins

    David Cameron failed to foist new houses on rural areas. Why does Keir Starmer think he’ll succeed?

    Simon Jenkins
  • Student sitting at a table using a textbook

    Ucas plans to drop personal statements for UK university applicants

    • Labour Cuts

      We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

      Emma Vincent Miller, Catherine Fletcher, Minesh Parekh, Rachel Clarke and Anonymous
    • Ex-Tory minister Chris Skidmore could head the Office for Students.

      UK universities need rescue package to stop ‘domino effect’ of going under

    • Crowds of people in an ornate hall, visiting various stalls

      UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students

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In depth

  • Trump on stage in front of a large sign saying 'Faith'

    Trump and Project 2025 are attacking the Department of Education. How might they reshape US schools?

  • 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

    Staff at Essex primary describe struggle to secure support and the difference a charity’s specialist training made
  • Pupils sit together eating a meal

    Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school’s radical 12-hour day

    All Saints Catholic College aiming to ‘give children their childhood back’ by breaking their screen addictions
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Opinion

  • Adrian Chiles

    Graduation is such a significant moment – and yet we never realise it at the time

    Adrian Chiles
  • Pupils in a classroom

    The Guardian view on the widening attainment gap: poorer children need a boost

  • Arash Abizadeh

    Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that

    Arash Abizadeh
  • Adrian Chiles

    School can be brutal. Congratulations to anyone who has just made it through another year

    Adrian Chiles
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