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  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Financial literacy
    Make financial education compulsory in English schools, business urges

    Open letter from industry coalition adds pressure on government to ensure children are taught how money works

    Children attend a mathematics lesson at St Mary’s Primary School in Stoke on Trent
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    OutlookMiranda Green
    Labour’s lofty education goals need outside innovators

    Experiments by academy schools — and without Treasury money — are key to solving problems for deprived families

    Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson holding her painting of sunflowers, alongside pupils Wyatt, aged 4 (left), and Aicha, aged 4, during a visit to the school-based nursery at Ark Start Oval, East Croydon
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    FT readers respond
    FT readers respond: why are young men struggling to find work?

    Commenters discuss the latest figures on the male education deficit — join the debate

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Soumaya Keynes
    How bad are term-time holidays really?

    Parents are increasingly relaxed about them, despite research suggesting that every absence does count

    A whimsical illustration of a yellow school bus driving through a playful scene with colorful beach balls bouncing around. The bus has objects like a canoe and a large inflatable flamingo tied to its roof, and hands wave out of the windows
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Private schools fill gap for special needs pupils in England

    Annual allocation up 15% as local authorities and education body warn of spiralling costs

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  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    UK tax
    European diplomats lobby UK over plans to charge VAT on private education

    Embassies argue international schools in London should be exempt from tax change

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  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Education
    UK spending on pre-school education among lowest of advanced economies

    OECD report points to challenges in improving state-backed provision for young children

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  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Edward Timpson
    The best support for children keeps things simple

    Policies that actually work trust local communities and focus on getting the fundamentals right

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  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    The best investment tip of all? Start when you’re young

    Sir Douglas Flint joins calls to boost personal finance teaching in schools

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Why are suspensions rocketing in English schools?

    Education leaders warn of crisis as teachers struggle to meet demand from pupils with complex needs

    A montage of a student with his head down on his backpack with a blurred background of more students at desks and a line from a graph
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    England’s school curriculum needs reform to fix ‘glaring omissions’, review finds

    OCR exam board calls for climate change and digital literacy to be given more prominence

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  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    My worries about the end of Ofsted’s one-word grading

    Unclear whether Labour government’s new report card system will answer concerns raised following Ruth Perry’s death

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  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Maths education in UK schools needs to be revamped, says Royal Society

    Britain is a ‘peculiar outlier’ in allowing children to drop the subject at 16, says president of institution

    A student completes her GCSE mathematics exam
  • Sunday, 1 September, 2024
    Ofsted to end single-headline judgments on school performance

    Government says new system of report cards in England will boost transparency and standards

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  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Eton College to pass on full cost of VAT on fees to parents

    Parents told high-profile boarding school has ‘no scope’ to absorb extra cost

    Students walk through a courtyard at Eton College in Eton, Berkshire, England
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Dulwich College headmaster steps down after outburst at staff party

    Joseph Spence to move to ambassadorial role at £55,000-a-year private school after ‘losing [his] temper’ with a colleague

    A view of Dulwich College in London
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Bobby Seagull
    Maths education is failing UK students

    To combat worrying GCSE trends, we must make the discipline relevant to young people

    A frustrated student
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Maths and English GCSE failure rates near 40%

    Exam results show north and Midlands falling further behind London and south

    A girl smiles while holding her GCSE results envelope at Ark Pioneer in Barnet, north London, as a teacher standing next to her gestures animatedly. Another person in the background smiles
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Lucy Warwick-Ching
    How can I avoid art investment scams?

    As a newcomer to the market, I’m worried about falling victim to fraud

  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The UK skills crisis holding back growth

    A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain’s young people are falling behind

  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Explainer
    A-level analysis shows London taking most top grades

    In charts: Jump in A* results and performance gap widens between private and state schools

    Montage shows A-Level students from the City of London Academy, Highgate Hill, a school sponsored by the City of London, with results data in the background
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    UK universities
    Lower-ranked UK universities fight to fill places after drop in overseas applicants

    Data from UCAS comes as A-level results show rise in share of A* grades

    Students react as they receive A-Level results at Norlington School and 6th Form in Waltham Forest
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Exam Nation — Sammy Wright on how the school system is failing students

    An absorbing read and reminder of the young people who don’t make the grade

    Rows of students in school uniform sitting sitting at a desk doing an exam
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    UK private schools face VAT charge from January 2025

    Treasury says tax will be applied to payments made from Monday on terms starting next year

    Students in a classroom at a day and boarding school
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Education
    Councils ‘struggle to cope’ with rising cost of special educational needs

    Attainment of children with disabilities in England has flatlined or fallen over past decade, according to study

    Children at school
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