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Deadline review – shocking threat sends tremors through authoritarian school

At this elite private institute, pupils studiously march in lines like obedient soldiers, their purple uniforms the only pop of colour in a grey building of glass and steel. The school's operations have a touch of…

Monday briefing: What will it take to turn around our struggling education system?

Now, on to children, who – if the steady stream of warnings is anything to go by – are in serious trouble. There's the pull of addictive screens, a sharp drop in children reading for pleasure, a global decline in…

France’s other schools problem – the teens violently smashing up their old primaries: ‘They think it’s not worthy of respect – so they trash it’

But at 6.30pm that evening, two boys turned up late for school – by two years. Former pupils there, the 13-year-olds struggled to break through the crispy lattice of the front-door window with a garden fork and a broom.…

Retrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader

Speaking to the Guardian, Kebede called on the government to roll out a mass retrofitting programme to ensure schools – which he said had been built "for a different climate" – were better equipped to deal with extreme…

Camden council was warned about paedophile nursery worker years before arrest

In February, Vincent Chan was jailed after pleading guilty to 56 offences , including assault by penetration on three-year-old girls in his care at a Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in north-west London. After…

Headteachers threaten strike ballots after losing confidence in Ofsted

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), which includes senior leaders in many secondary schools, described Ofsted's inspection system as "an overbearing mess" and urged the government to pause inspections…

Ofsted faces fresh calls to halt graded school inspections in England

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) also raised the prospect of potential strike action, saying a new grading system had become an "overbearing mess". On Friday, Ofsted's chief inspector Sir Martyn…

Tell us: have you been affected by the strikes at Edinburgh, Dundee or Nottingham universities?

University and College Union (UCU) members in Edinburgh launched their industrial action on 28 September , while their colleagues at the University of Dundee were embarking on a five-week strike. UCU members at the…

New Ofsted inspection regime damaging teachers, survey says

The independent survey of school leaders who had undergone the revised inspections since last year found that 88% said it had "negatively affected" the mental wellbeing of school staff, including 29% who said it affected…

University students say procrastination is biggest threat to their academic performance

The study found that nearly half of the students surveyed named procrastination as the thing damaging their ability to do academic work, more than twice the number who named depression, while the same proportion said…