Opinion: Does Jeremy Hunt Hate Children?
by Edie Miller
The chancellor’s recent budget announcement of 30 hours of free childcare for one and two-year-olds is too little, too late.
Tag: education
Opinion: The Tories Want You to Panic About Sex Education
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Attacks on sex and relationships teaching are a continuation of an ongoing panic that primarily targets LGBTQ+ people, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.
Opinion: No, School Isn’t Making Kids ‘Woke’
by Aaron Bastani
Young people aren’t more leftwing because they’re being brainwashed at school. They’re more leftwing because they’ve lived under neoliberalism, writes Aaron Bastani.
Report: York Students on Rent Strike Celebrate After Debt Collectors Called Off
by Ella Glover
Strike organisers at the Russell Group institution allege the university has threatened international students with 'deportation' and refused to negotiate. But on Monday, a new offer was put forward.
Report: A Teacher Was Suspended for Encouraging Students to Question the Monarchy
by Rivkah Brown
A Scottish secondary school teacher was suspended on Tuesday after encouraging students to question the media’s one-sided view of the monarchy. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: The Trojan Horse Affair Gave Birth to the Prevent Strategy. It’s Time to Kill It
by Rob Faure Walker
The state-sanctioned Islamophobia exposed by Brian Reed and Hamza Syed lives on in Prevent, writes Rob Faure Walker. It's time to end this disastrous strategy.
Opinion: Austerity May Be Over, but the Tories Still Aren’t Spending Enough
by James Meadway
With this year's budget, the Tories may have ended austerity, but the spending increases they are proposing aren't nearly enough to undo the damage they have wrought through a decade of brutal cuts.
Live: UK Watchdog Advises Against Covid-19 Jabs for All Teenagers
The JCVI has surprised parents and politicians by advising against Covid-19 vaccines for most 12 to 15 year olds. Will health secretary Sajid Javid now overrule them?
Live: A-Levels Expose England’s Rigged School System
The gap between students at private and state schools receiving A/A* grades has hit record levels. We speak to Jeevun Sandher about the statistics behind Britain's educational divide.
Ash Wednesday: What About the White Working Class?
Has the idpol-loving left abandoned the white working class? The answer is a bit more complicated than the Tories would have you think.
Opinion: The Tories Are on a Mission to Destroy Black Lives Matter
by Kimi Chaddah
From redbaiting to racist policies, the Tories have launched a concerted attack on the Black Lives Matter movement, writes Kimi Chaddah. We can’t let them get away with it.
Live: Tories Blaming the Term ‘White Privilege’ for Underachievement in Schools
MPs have criticised the term 'white privilege' in a report on the underachievement of white working class students. Once again, the usual suspects are overlooking class to use kids as a front in their culture war.
Live: Tories Announce Pathetic Covid-19 Catch Up Plans
The Tories' own education tsar has recommended £15bn will be needed to help fund catch up programmes for kids who missed school due to Covid-19. So why have the government only proposed £1.4bn?
Long Read: The Left Won’t Win the 2020s by Clinging to the Corpse of the Labour Party
by Jonas Marvin
James Schneider's undying Labourism, expressed in his recent series How We Win, obscures an important truth: the next left surge will take place against the state, not within it.
Report: The Tories’ New Discipline Drive Prepares Some Kids for Work and Others for Prison
by Sophie K Rosa
Orderly and disciplined classrooms train most children to be compliant workers, but send others down the school-to-prison pipeline. Sophie K Rosa reports on the Tories' divisive new crackdown.
Report: Royal Mail Wants to Close Its Workers’ Nursery During the Pandemic
by Shahed Ezaydi
Childsplay has been a lifeline for Royal Mail parents since 1989, though particularly during the past year. Now the company plans to rip it away, just when workers need it most. Shahed Ezaydi reports.
Live: The Exit Plan
Boris Johnson delivers his roadmap out of lockdown. Do his plans for students to all return on the 8th March risk a resurgence? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Opinion: Long School Days Won’t Get Children up to Speed Post-Pandemic – Our Privately-Educated Overlords Should Know That
by James McAsh
There's a reason small class sizes and rich extracurricular provision are staples of private schooling, writes primary teacher James McAsh.