…recommendations for increased teacher pay. Children should not be missing school and this decision means the strikes should now come to an end. “But the pay increases must be fully…
Balancing budgets: Schools forced to make increasing cuts to staff and activities amid funding crisis
…their pupils – just to ensure that they balance their budgets for another year. It is especially frustrating to see that school leaders are having to make such severe cuts…
What have the main parties pledged for students?
…thresholds had increased with inflation even just since 2016, 30,000 more young people each year would be eligible for the maximum level of support. England is also the only UK…
The stomping ground of the political elite: Why does Oxford produce so many Prime Ministers?
…Civil Law from the university. But why have so many Prime Ministers been to Oxford and how does the new Prime Minister compare to those who have come before him?…
Is England’s squad in a class of their own?
15% of the 26 England squad members in Germany this summer attended private schools, compared to 7% of the population as a whole. But why should we care about the…
Labour’s mostly state-educated Cabinet must push fair HE access
…the 88 per cent of us who attend a comprehensive school. Greater diversity in the Commons and the Cabinet is, therefore, cause for celebration, as is the new government’s focus…