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    Aberdeenshire pupils with complex needs ‘erased’ from school photo

    Families sent two versions of a class photo to choose from, with one excluding children with additional needs
  • Lola Okolosie

    Chaos in the classroom? Take it from someone on the frontline, this is the result of Tory neglect

    Lola Okolosie
  • John Merrick

    Do you leave your home town or stay behind? It’s a question at the heart of British politics

    John Merrick
  • Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Goldsmiths academics to strike over ‘incomprehensible’ redundancies

  • ‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked

  • Beatings, humiliation and loss of self-worth: how Edinburgh Academy victims were scarred

  • Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe

  • Tory MP Robert Halfon quits as minister and James Heappey confirms resignation, paving way for mini reshuffle – as it happened

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    ‘Left without a voice’: October general election could leave students in UK unable to vote

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    • James Cleverly leaving No 10 Downing Street.

      Foreign students may be undermining UK higher education, says Cleverly

    • Bleak stuff … teacher turned comedian Geoff Norcott in Is University Really Worth It?

      Is University Really Worth It? review – not when students are left starving

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Social work: looking to the future

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    Social care in 2024
    The needs, the challenges and reasons to be optimistic

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    ‘I want to improve things for people’
    Seven social workers reveal why it’s such a rewarding career

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    ‘My social worker got my life back on track’
    How the profession helps people find a future

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    ‘Look after your emotional health, it’s not a weakness’
    Five ways for social workers to maintain their wellbeing

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  • Charles Spencer as a boy before going to Maidwell Hall as a boarding pupil.

    ‘I don’t think I developed emotionally’: Earl Spencer on the pain of boarding-school abuse

  • A boy does maths activities on an iPad.

    ‘Children are being failed’: why more English parents are home educating

    Fines, health needs, and a poor learning environment are among the reasons for the rise in children taken out of school
  • Alan Streeter was the fifth headteacher at the school in three years when he arrived in 2018.

    ‘Parents didn’t want their kids to be here’: inside the troubled London school that stopped excluding pupils and restored calm

    Headteacher Alan Streeter has turned around Beacon High School, a deprived secondary with a reputation for violence and 300 suspensions a year
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Opinion

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Boarding schools can do tremendous harm. Charles Spencer’s bleak memoir proves it

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Charlotte Higgins

    I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – now I hope words become action

    Charlotte Higgins
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    The Guardian view on multi-academy trusts: disputes over school budgets point to deeper issues

  • Polly Toynbee

    The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back

    Polly Toynbee
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