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Sam Freedman
Why saving universities is far more than academic
Sun 26 Apr 2026
John Simpson
Prestigious Guernsey college opens investigation into child sexual abuse
Sun 19 Apr 2026
An alternative to traditional internships
Sun 5 Apr 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Bridget Phillipson: ‘We don’t know why British children are some of the unhappiest’
Sun 29 Mar 2026
Rachel Sylvester
School system is creating a ‘wasted generation’ which is unprepared for work
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Letters to the editor
School-ready children? Ask a health visitor
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Brett Wigdortz
A child who doesn’t know how to play won’t know how to learn
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Teachers are being forced to parent children as Britain faces school readiness crisis
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Patricia Clarke
AI is inventing academic articles – and scholars are citing them
Tue 10 Mar 2026
John Simpson
Viral memes fuel hysteria over school fight clubs
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Fred Harter
Labour has taken radical steps to overhaul the Send system. But not everyone will feel included
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Reforms will give Send pupils ‘support bases’ in every secondary school
Sun 22 Feb 2026
The Observer leader
Save our students
Sun 15 Feb 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Up to half of school exams ‘on screen within a decade’, says board chief
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Emma Haslett
Cambridge fund gives £4m boost to spinouts
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Elif Shafak
Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Don’t let it come true
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Catherine Neilan
Young Labour MPs team up to force chancellor’s hand on student loans
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Paul Nurse: ‘We are putting barriers in the way of getting the most talented scientists’
Fri 2 Jan 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Allegations against predatory tutors reveal an ‘endemic’ culture of abuse at conservatoires
Mon 29 Dec 2025
Martha Gill
Libraries are essential to help us navigate the world
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
Private schools charging councils £250k for each Send pupil
Sat 13 Dec 2025
“Day Zero” in Tehran
35 mins • S1, E295
Sam Freedman
Labour’s holiday homework: solve the problem of special needs education
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Sir Richard Lambert
Raising costs for overseas students won’t help cash-strapped universities
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Richard Layard
Young people need a clear path to apprenticeships
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Matthew Bishop
Financial literacy lessons will help kids plan for the future
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Broken education system is holding back the young, top scientists warn PM
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
Almost every family is failed on special needs, says ombudsman
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Rachel Sylvester
The government has flunked its curriculum review
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Tobias Ellwood
Why I back the baccalaureate
Wed 29 Oct 2025
Sarah Foot
Postgraduate study shouldn’t just be for the wealthy
Tue 28 Oct 2025
Onjali Q Raúf
Schools can’t blind our children to the injustices in Gaza
Wed 22 Oct 2025
Róisín Lanigan
Welcome to dumb Britain
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Naomi Alderman
In praise of ‘rip-off’ degrees
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Labour cuts funding for state school IB diplomas
Mon 6 Oct 2025
Barney Macintyre
Investors eye top private schools and SEN provision
Sun 5 Oct 2025
Anna Fazackerley
Overcrowding and ‘chaos’ as colleges scramble for fees
Sun 5 Oct 2025
Anna Fazackerley
Novice examiners lead to huge rise in queries over grades
Sat 4 Oct 2025
Richard Ovenden
Libraries are palaces for the people. They need defending
Tue 30 Sept 2025
Tom Wall
Yes, today’s jobs market is tough for graduates – but AI is not to blame
Sun 28 Sept 2025
Catherine Milner
Pupils starved of art lose their creative spark
Sat 27 Sept 2025
Matthew Bishop
Ellison the Almighty, 81, sets his sights on Oxford
Mon 15 Sept 2025
Stephen Armstrong
The kids are alright: top A-level students look to the future
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Shuab Gamote
The A-level results are out, yet career paths are broken
Sun 17 Aug 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Question: who is marking your GCSE? Answer: an AI examiner
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Kenan Malik
AI thrives where education has been devalued
Sat 2 Aug 2025
Chris Smith
Free speech is our touchstone of academic excellence
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Teach First brand must be protected, say head teachers
Sun 20 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer’s next big battle: reforming the special needs system
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
How to fix special needs education
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Brett Wigdortz
I founded Teach First – I know how much it has helped children
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Ministers step in to save Teach First
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Labour to bring back 'Sure Start' for new generation
Sun 6 Jul 2025
Was the Diddy trial a failure to prosecute?
33 mins • S1, E247
Tim Leunig
Boosting foreign students must be part of industrial strategy
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Stop boring young readers, says study
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Reeves: I did well at school but I’m here for the girls who didn’t
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Surprise extra £4.5bn for schools as Reeves goes to wire on Cabinet cash
Sat 7 Jun 2025
Andrew Anthony
Alan Garber: the Harvard hero taking on Trump
Sun 1 Jun 2025
David Blunkett
‘We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world’
Sat 31 May 2025
Anna Fazackerley
Teens warned against TikToks that predict exam questions
Sat 24 May 2025
Martha Gill
An obsession with exams is failing our children
Sun 18 May 2025
Nigel Slater
School dinners: 60 years of the meals you loved to loathe
Sat 3 May 2025
‘Do we need a phone ban in schools? Just ask the children’
Sat 26 Apr 2025
