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Education

  • Elle Hunt

    I loved being home schooled (apart from my mum’s sex ed lessons). But are new methods too radical?

    Elle Hunt
    ‘Free-schooling’ is far removed from my experience – and likely to provoke strong views, as one TikTok influencer discovered, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt
  • The front window of a music shop, showing instruments including guitars, drums, a saxaphone and a recorder

    Which musical instrument is the easiest to learn?

  • Nigel Kennedy

    Nigel Kennedy: why I’m going on stage to play jazz with my ‘young cats’

  • School worker jailed for sexually abusing autistic boy aged under 16

  • Labour halts Tory law on freedom of speech in English universities

  • One in six vapes confiscated at English schools spiked with ‘zombie drug’

  • £5bn debt crisis of special educational needs ‘could bankrupt’ English councils

  • Third of Team GB athletes for Paris Olympics educated privately

  • Tackling misogyny in UK schools could take up to 20 years, says Jess Phillips

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University guide

Universities

  • UK university students wearing mortar boards and gowns

    Ucas personal statements weren’t read by academics

  • Were you particularly proud of your statement – or does the mere mention of it bring embarrassment?

    Send us your old Ucas personal statements

    • Exterior of Goldsmiths, University of London

      English universities should not expect government bailout, Phillipson says

    • Students outside the main campus of Renmin University of China

      Chinese university sacks professor after social media accusation of sexual harassment

    • Sir Paul Nurse shakes hands with Rosemary Fowler

      Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery

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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

  • Eva Wiseman

    Are you giving your kids a 90s summer?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Adrian Chiles

    Graduation is such a significant moment – and yet we never realise it at the time

    Adrian Chiles
  • Pupils in a classroom

    The Guardian view on the widening attainment gap: poorer children need a boost

  • Arash Abizadeh

    Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that

    Arash Abizadeh
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