Feature: Should Schools Tackle Andrew Tate Head On?
Sophie K Rosa
We spoke to teachers and students about the influence of Andrew Tate in schools, viral misogyny, and what can be done about it.
Tag: schools
Opinion: The Trojan Horse Affair Gave Birth to the Prevent Strategy. It’s Time to Kill It
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.
Downstream: Why the Trojan Horse Affair Is a Very British Scandal
There was never an extremist plot to Islamify schools in Birmingham – so why do so many people still believe it?
Novara 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?
Novara 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.
Report: The Tories’ New Discipline Drive Prepares Some Kids for Work and Others for Prison
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.
Novara 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
James McAsh
There's a reason small class sizes and rich extracurricular provision are staples of private schooling, writes primary teacher James McAsh.
Novara Live: Schools Out Till Easter?
Government briefings suggest schools will stay closed until Easter. Is this a policy progressives should support? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and Chloe Tomlinson
The Bastani Factor: “This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”
Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave the worst interview by a politician Aaron Bastani has ever seen. What does it say when after 100,000 people have died a leading politician can get away with such a performance?
Novara Live: Fleecing Britain’s Children
The government have once again been shamed by a footballer for failing Britain’s kids. From a botched schools policy to paltry meals, are the Tories failing a generation? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Report: Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started
Rivkah Brown
The Tories' U-turn on schools was not merely the product of circumstance, but months of teacher organising. Now, with a multiplying membership and renewed confidence, unions are setting their sights beyond the pandemic to transforming their entire profession. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: The Government Scrimped on School Safety. Now Students and Staff Are Paying the Price
James McAsh
Just over a week since schools reopened, coronavirus outbreaks are forcing hundreds of pupils across the UK back home. Primary teacher and trade unionist James McAsh reports on an avoidable crisis.
The Burner: The Burner Episode #243: Ease Off, Second Wave + Talking Teachers
James Butler asks what the government ease-off in regulations is really about – should we expect a second wave? Plus, as teachers are pressed back to work, we hear from one trade unionist about what’s really going on in schools.
Opinion: Once Again, the Government is Using Disadvantaged Children to Pursue Harmful Policies
Chloe Tomlinson
Schools are set to reopen tomorrow, with the government arguing we must make sure “the poorest and most disadvantaged pupils don’t fall behind”. Chloe Tomlinson suggests ministers are employing a familiar strategy: crying ‘think of the children’ in order to get their own way.
GE2019: Exposing School Cuts Will Be the Key to Beating Boris Johnson
James McAsh
Despite four years of cuts to schools in Britain, the Tories continue to promise additional school funding. Primary school teacher and NUT member James McAsh argues that exposing school cuts is the key to unlocking the next general election.
Bring on Labour’s National Education Service, Ending Ofsted Means Ending a System That Fails Children
James McAsh
Until recently Labour’s flagship education policy was as vague as it was exciting. This changed at last month's Labour Conference when a full picture of the party's proposed National Education Service emerged for the first time: it will be a full throttled attack on neoliberalism in education, argues teacher James McAsh, including the scrapping of Ofsted.
Sex Education in the UK Must Be Transformed
Natalie Fiennes
With the government issuing new legislation to change sex education in schools, Natalie Fiennes argues that this new curriculum must be a radical one.