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  • Pro-Palestinian protesters in tents at Birmingham university's campus

    High court allows two UK universities to remove Gaza protest camps

    Officials at Nottingham and Birmingham can evict student activists after judge ruled human rights were not affected
  • Adrian Chiles

    School can be brutal. Congratulations to anyone who has just made it through another year

    Adrian Chiles
  • A grand school building

    Former girls’ school in London to reopen as pioneering youth hub

  • Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – as it happened

  • Students under near constant surveillance at Exclusive Brethren-linked schools, insiders claim

  • My home town: how Chesterfield changed under Conservative rule

  • Gaza protest camps at UK universities wind down amid legal action

  • The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

  • Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

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  • University lecturer writing on a blackboard

    Inept managers have left universities at crisis point

  • Mariyah Ali outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London

    Birmingham University censoring student beliefs over Gaza camp evictions, court hears

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      How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster – podcast

    • NSW police at the scene of an alleged stabbing at University of Sydney

      University of Sydney stabbing: 14-year-old may have been influenced by ‘salad bar’ of ideologies, police allege

    • Broken Uni tory mortarboard illustration

      How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster

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In depth

  • Trump on stage in front of a large sign saying 'Faith'

    Trump and Project 2025 are attacking the Department of Education. How might they reshape US schools?

  • Maggie Aderin-Pocock smiles as she sits between two pupils at a table

    ‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees

    Staff at Essex primary describe struggle to secure support and the difference a charity’s specialist training made
  • Pupils sit together eating a meal

    Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school’s radical 12-hour day

    All Saints Catholic College aiming to ‘give children their childhood back’ by breaking their screen addictions
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Opinion

  • Gillian Harvey

    After 15 years away I moved back to the UK fearing the worst. What I found startled me

    Gillian Harvey
  • Teenage girl playing snooker.

    The Guardian view on youth clubs: these vital institutions do more than prevent crime

  • Simon Jenkins

    Message to Labour: don’t tax school fees. Make private schools work for the public good

    Simon Jenkins
  • Bridget Phillipson

    For me, Ms Haq was the teacher you never forget. But today’s Ms Haqs are quitting

    Bridget Phillipson
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