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Private school forced to close after VAT raid triggers pupil exodus
Primary school in Burnley to close this summer after Labour’s taxes rises make fees unaffordable
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Teachers threaten new strike action in clash with Labour
Education Secretary urges National Education Union to ‘put children first’ following rejection of latest pay offer
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Primary school gives teachers half-day off on Fridays to save money
Buxton Primary writes to parents in bid to cut staff bill amid ‘increased financial pressure’
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Should you pay off your student loan early in 2025?
Students with Plan 5 loans will be paying off more debt, and for longer
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How much does university cost parents? Evaluate all financial help options
Here's what you need to consider when deciding how to support your children at university
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The academics incensed by the woke overhaul of Oxford’s 800-year-old graduation ceremony
A plan to make the Latin wording gender-neutral has met resistance from Latin experts, students and university staff
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SNP’s free university tuition policy sees the wealthy laugh all the way to the bank
Scotland’s expensive ideological indulgence lacks public support and deserves to be scrapped
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University sued over ‘Mickey Mouse’ legal qualification
Two former students say promises of specialist modules, high-quality teaching and flexible learning did not materialise
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Joan of Arc was non-binary, schoolchildren taught
Anthology’s comment on medieval French heroine branded an ‘insult’ to strong women throughout history
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The results are in for Labour’s private school experiment: a giant F
One day, politics students will study this farrago as an object lesson in self-defeating policymaking
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The latest crisis in education: many university degrees may now be obtained by fraud
The prevalence of online remote exams is a threat to academic integrity
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Labour ‘does not know’ number of special needs pupils hit by VAT raid
Ministers accused of failing to properly consider impact of private school levy
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What kind of warped teacher brands a toddler transphobic?
News that a pupil has been suspended for breaking a nursery’s sexual orientation and gender policy proves the trans lobby has become a cult
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Toddler kicked out of nursery for being transphobic
Child suspended from state school for ‘abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity’, official figures show
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Private schools accuse Government of refusing to consult them over VAT raid
The Independent Schools Council claims ministers refused to engage with private schools before storming ahead with their sweeping tax raid
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Female teachers in Scotland ‘more likely to be attacked than male colleagues’
NASUWT finds nearly half reported physical abuse from pupils in the past year as it demands greater action to tackle ‘scourge’ of misogyny
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Children as young as five attacking their teachers
Surge in primary school pupils expelled for violence, with incidents of racism, homophobia and transphobia also rising
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The ‘sinister emojis’ used by incel teenagers
Police and teachers across Britain issue parents with table of emojis said to be used by under-18s to discuss violence, sex and extremism
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School counsellor sacked after telling girls ‘make your husband your king’
Tribunal rejects appeal against dismissal by Gozen Soydag, who said it was ‘God’s design’ that ‘wives are to submit to their husbands’
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Putting on Caribbean accent is OK, says judge – if you’re imitating the Lilt advert
Trainee teacher sued for race discrimination after mentor mimicked the soft drink slogan, employment tribunal hears
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How Labour signed the death warrant on single-sex education
The Government’s VAT hike has lead to a rush by private schools to go co-ed in an effort to broaden their appeal and safeguard their future
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Schools reward pupils with iPads and bikes for turning up to lessons
Headteachers urged to ‘encourage’ attendance rather than punish truancy as record number of pupils absent
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Human rights laws may yet reverse Labour’s private school VAT raid
If the courts find that the imposition contravenes the ECHR, Starmer will find it very difficult not to ditch this spiteful policy
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School curriculum ‘designed to install racist notion of British identity’
Teaching union accused of waging ‘war on white Britishness’ with claim that lessons are based on ‘narrow government-imposed dogma’
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Catholic infant school teacher moonlighting on OnlyFans sparks government intervention
‘I am not ashamed of what I do’, says Italian adult content creator Elena Maraga, whose work was found by a pupil’s parent
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Pupils forced into five-hour round trip to school by Department for Education
Parents are left in ‘utter shock’ as lack of academy places force 60 incoming Year 7s to travel for hours by themselves
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Bin the national curriculum and the educational blob along with it
The more challenging the school environment, the keener teachers are on no-nonsense tough discipline
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Christian teacher who said ‘LGBT is a sin’ loses court battle
High Court dismisses Glawdys Leger’s legal action after she claimed panel’s findings infringed her privacy
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Madrid bans laptops and tablets in classrooms
Devices restricted for under-12s to protect mental health and spark ‘a return to books, careful spelling and handwriting’
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Maths teacher asked Muslim pupil if she had bomb under hijab
Misconduct panel allows Mark Holland to continue teaching despite string of offensive comments to pupils
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Young men drawn to toxic masculinity because schools are not ‘boy-positive’
Report shines a light on the impact of misogynist influencers on teenage boys, with parallels to the Netflix series Adolescence
