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What students can learn from time spent in care homes.
Why higher education is a worthy cause for the rich and famous.
The gender gap matters, and we need to recruit, train and retain more men to care for and educate our youngest children
A look at the real causes of the teacher shortage in the wake of Lucy Kellaway quitting the FT for life as a maths teacher.
Parents of children who have complex healthcare needs often find their role as a mother or father is overwhelmed by all the clinical tasks they have to undertake.
In praise of the teaching excellence framework.
The current education system lends itself to heightened stress levels among staff – and the empowerment of bullies.
Highly restrictive speech codes are now the norm in some of the world’s universities.
Like so many other countries, the UK is experiencing a shortage of primary school teachers - especially one’s of the male variety.
Educational genomics could mean tailor-made curriculum programmes can be created based on a pupil’s DNA profile.
Will an increase in free nursery hours lead to greater support for publicly-provided childcare?
Because it’s not always as simple as ‘yes means yes’.
Not every student will publish work or win prizes and very few will be able to earn a living putting pen to paper, but the teaching of creative writing is about more than that.
It’s time to recognise the difference between ‘deep’ and ‘shallow’ volunteering.
We need to educate children about how to behave responsibly online.
With the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of populist extremism, we must defend the teaching of anthropology. And in doing so, we might expand and rethink ideas of “the humanities”.
Last year, ChildLine was contacted every 30 minutes by a young person having suicidal thoughts.
Do we really need to introduce a well-being league table to tackle mental health issues in schools?
Who am I, as an academic, to decide in advance what is or what is not triggering to others?
Children start to demonstrate self-awareness as they approach their second birthday – and it helps them to learn.
‘Posh white girls’ are unjustifiably taking the brunt of reports of the last art history A-level but casualties are all those the exam board had been moving to reach out to.
Theresa May might believe ‘poorer children do better’ at grammar schools, but she still has a lot to learn about how social inequality impacts education.
Allowing new faith schools to religiously select 100% of their pupils is not only problematic in terms of social integration, it is simply unfair.
Dyslexic? There’s an app for that.