Education
Total 14 Posts
Teachers vote overwhelmingly to strike
2 min read
Teachers’ strikes will result in the closure of the majority of English and Welsh schools.
Universal free school meals would make a huge difference to the cost-of-living crisis
4 min read
Widening access to free school meals would be an investment in England’s children.
Why UK universities are going on strike
5 min read
University staff to walk out for three days in what may be the largest ever in the higher education sector.
How teachers supported children and parents through COVID-19 school closures.
5 min read
Teachers went to great effort to help parents support their children’s learning during the lockdown periods.
London’s Olympic legacy: Why £2.2 billion investment in primary school PE has failed teachers.
11 min read
The 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics promised to have a major impact on school sports. Ten years on, many primary school PE lessons have been outsourced to private sports contractors, resulting in the ‘deskilling’ of a generation of teachers.
Thousands of Ukrainian children are joining UK schools, but some face issues obtaining school places.
4 min read
Only 9,900 Ukrainian children have been offered school places in England as their families left their homes and resettled in the UK. If a child is denied a place at a school, families need to know they can appeal the decision.
The Schools Bill: An attack on home-schooling that hurts children the most.
4 min read
Many are alarmed by the Government’s new Schools Bill which seems designed to force some children into mainstream education against their best interests.