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Novara Live: Abolish Eton With Holly Rigby and Aaron Bastani

As the scandal-ridden Prime Minister gets ready for his conference address, Michael and Aaron are joined by Holly Rigby to discuss how a Labour government might go about abolishing his old school.

Why We Need a New Response to the LGBT Sex Education Row

Sita Balani

With the row in Birmingham over LGBT sex education for primary school moving into its fourth month, Sita Balani argues that this conflict needs to be understood in the context of the Prevent duty in UK schools.

Why Are Teachers Taking Action Against SATs?

James McAsh

While bigots across the land are seething that primary pupils are taught the existence of LGBT people, the National Education Union is taking on the real menace in the classroom: SATs. James McAsh explains why.

All The Best: RIP EuroShanly…

Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin mourn the demise of the EuroShanly movement and discuss Sky News morphing into Fox News, SATs and Labour's education policy.

5 Reasons We Should Abolish Oxbridge

Angus Satow

Every year, another educational access report prompts outrage at how over-represented private schools are at Oxford and Cambridge. But amidst these ritual furores, the existence of these elite universities is never called into question. Angus Satow lays out five reasons we should abolish Oxbridge altogether.

A ‘Neu’ Union?

James McAsh

On 15 November, members of the National Education Union teaching in state-funded schools and sixth form colleges launched a ballot on the issues of teacher pay and school funding. The hope is that this will be the first step towards nation-wide strike action.

Support the UCU Strike

Today was the first of fourteen days of strike action by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) over proposed 40% cuts to the USS pensions scheme. 61 campuses are taking part in the largest strike action in UK Higher education history. Callum Cant went to the picket lines to find out more.

4 Things to Remember About the Toby Young Scandal

Nathan Akehurst

Far from just being a creep who was somehow appointed to direct the new Office for Students, Toby Young has spent years shaping himself as an educationalist of sorts. Today he resigned - here are the takeaways from the slow-burn car crash.

6 Ways Monetisation Is Destroying Universities From the Inside Out

Rebecca Corningstone

Universities run like businesses. Students treated like consumers. Here's how higher education in the UK is being changed for the worse.

4 Reasons the Tories Have Been Bad for Education

Danny Rees

Education! Education! Education! Education! Teacher Danny Rees explains why a vote for the Tories is a vote against learning.

Enough is Enough: UCL Climate Activists Escalate Their Fight for Divestment

Olivia Goldin and Julia Hashimoto Schaff

With over a quarter of UK universities having divested from fossil fuels, UCL activists vow to make their university finally go green.

HE Reforms Have Been Rocked, but the Student Movement Must Keep Pressure On

Ana Oppenheim

This week the House of Lords passed an amendment to the HE Reform Bill, uncoupling the link between the 'Teaching Excellence Framework' and fresh fee hikes. Yet it's no time for the student movement to rest on its laurels, argues Ana Oppenheim.

Open Letter: The Government’s Education Policies are Attacking BME and Migrant Students

Unis Resist Border Controls

The home secretary has pledged to reduce the number of non-EU international students enrolled at British universities from 300,000 to 170,000, representing a further attack on migrant and BME students.

Department for Education Emails Reveal a Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Policy

Jessica Brown

In May the mental health for schools champion was fired for criticising government policy, suggesting the Tories are more concerned with PR than children's mental wellbeing.

Education Not Segregation: A Serious Strategy for Educational Reform for the Labour Party

Sol Gamsu

Angela Rayner’s speech at the Labour party conference indicated the possibilities for a radical alternative for education, but what would a long-term strategy look like?

4 Reasons to Resist the New Immigration Duty in the School Census

Against Borders for Children

Schools are now being used to investigate 'education tourism' as part of the government's campaign to create a hostile environment for migrants. Against Borders for Children believes we can work together to resist the plans.

Explainers: What are: Grammar Schools?

Novara Explainers: the effects of grammar schools.

If Teach First Wants to Solve Inequality, It Should Reconsider Its Corporate Bedfellows

Danny Rees

What links Goldman Sachs and an inner-city school serving a low-income community? The answer is troubling one.

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