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Education

  • Two school-age girls skipping across a street in a city

    Summer holiday childcare in UK now costs £1,000 a child, research finds

    Parents or carers in full-time work said to be ‘dreading’ expense, and sum may be even higher in Wales and south-east England
  • Graduates throw their caps in the air at Birmingham University, UK, after the graduation ceremony.

    UK graduates: tell us how your job hunt has been going

  • A motion blurred image of a group of pupils

    Sharp increase in pupils suspended or excluded from schools in England

  • Ucas plans to drop personal statements for UK university applicants

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

    Adrian Chiles

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

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

    Arash Abizadeh

  • We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

    Emma Vincent Miller, Catherine Fletcher, Minesh Parekh, Rachel Clarke and Anonymous

  • Gordon Brown calls on ministers not to scrap T-level qualification

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University guide

Universities

  • Simon Jenkins

    David Cameron failed to foist new houses on rural areas. Why does Keir Starmer think he’ll succeed?

    Simon Jenkins
  • Ex-Tory minister Chris Skidmore could head the Office for Students.

    UK universities need rescue package to stop ‘domino effect’ of going under

    • Crowds of people in an ornate hall, visiting various stalls

      UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students

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

      High court allows two UK universities to remove Gaza protest camps

    • University lecturer writing on a blackboard

      Inept managers have left universities at crisis point

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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

  • Adrian Chiles

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

    Adrian Chiles
  • Keir Starmer holds a news conference after his first cabinet meeting on 6 July 2024.

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

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    It’s no surprise a Newsweek writer panned Taylor Swift for being single and childless

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Gillian Harvey

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

    Gillian Harvey
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