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Schools

26 April 2024

  • Secondary school pupils walking in a corridor

    Just two in five pupils in England always feel safe in school, survey finds

    Teachers say behaviour getting worse as survey also shows parents getting less supportive of school policies

24 April 2024

  • A school banner advertising a 'good' rating

    Ruth Perry family furious as Ofsted single-word ratings are retained

  • An empty classroom during lockdown.

    Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures

22 April 2024

  • Michaela Community School in Brent

    Prayer rituals in schools remain a divisive issue

    Letters: Readers respond to a news report and an article by Nadeine Asbali on a prayer ban at Michaela community school in London

21 April 2024

  • Ofsted inspector at work

    The Guardian view on school exclusions: to help children, gaps in the system must be closed

    Editorial: Improving provision for pupils outside mainstream education ought to be a top priority
  • A model learning at home on the BBC Bitesize website.

    BBC to invest in AI to help transform its education services

    Hopes investment to make Bitesize more personalised and interactive will attract future licence-fee payers
  • Muslim student loses prayer ban challenge at Michaela school, Wembley, London, UK - 16 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock (14438163c) A general view of Michaela school in London. A Muslim student at Michaela school has lost a High Court challenge against its ban on prayer rituals. Muslim student loses prayer ban challenge at Michaela school, Wembley, London, UK - 16 Apr 2024

    ‘Soaked and muddy’: British Muslims tell their stories of prayer at school

    Students speak out after a pupil lost her legal challenge against a top London school after it brought in a ban to promote social cohesion

19 April 2024

  • BRITAIN-ART-FRIEZE<br>Vistors look at an artwork entitled "Anger Management" by artits Elmgreen &amp; Dragset during a photocall for the Frieze Art Fair in London on October 3, 2018. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / Tolga Akmen / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTIONTOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images

    Brief letters
    A shout out to anger management

  • Polly Toynbee

    Let’s end the annual torture of GCSE resits – and give students qualifications they’ll actually use

    Polly Toynbee

18 April 2024

  • A bright primary school room with a small table and bookcases with books.

    English primary schools cutting teacher numbers amid budget pressure, survey finds

    Rising inflation and falling pupil numbers also forcing schools to cut spending on extracurricular activities
  • Mark Menzies, left, and Rishi Sunak standing in front of a wood-panelled wall

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Tory HQ resists calls to refer Menzies allegations to police – as it happened

    Internal investigation under way but party has not announced that police have been called in

    • London mosque denies it advised school all prayers could be deferred

    • Football coaching boosts wellbeing of troubled pupils, study finds

    • Khan vows to set up ‘baby banks’ across London if re-elected mayor

17 April 2024

  • Exterior shot of Michaela community school. There is a sign for the school on the side of a multi-storey building.

    Experts divided over implications of prayer ban ruling at London school

    Some say more schools may ban organised prayer after court ruling but others say judgment was based on unique circumstances
  • A dark corridor in temporary housing accommodation supplied to a mother and children.

    ‘Rat bites and chronic asthma’: schools on frontline of UK housing crisis

    Schools say increasing numbers of children are turning up sick because of dire housing conditions – if they turn up at all
  • UK primary school classroom<br>EJ16M4 UK primary school classroom

    Tell us your experience of prayer at school

    We would like to hear from Muslims in the UK about theirs or their children’s experiences of prayer at school

16 April 2024

  • Michaela Community School school front

    High court upholds top London school’s ban on prayer rituals

    Muslim pupil loses case against Michaela community school, run by former government social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh
  • Nadeine Asbali

    Michaela school will keep its prayer ban – but as a Muslim teacher I know it doesn’t have to be this way

    Nadeine Asbali
    I’ve seen the richness that religious diversity brings to school life, says Nadeine Asbali, a secondary schoolteacher in London
  • Pupils, seen from behind, raise their hands in a classroom

    Multi-academy trusts have higher secondary-level teacher turnover than local authority schools

    Teacher retention problems particularly acute in larger Mats, analysis finds
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