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    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Education
      International schools shift to new markets after China boom stalls

      Countries such as India, Nigeria and Japan lure global education providers and prestigious UK institutions

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Bank bonuses
      How does your 2023 bonus measure up?

      FT poll shows more readers are stashing any bonus cash rather than splashing it on luxuries

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      UK public services
      UK public services need more cash to arrest further decline, says damning report

      Situation will be even harder for whoever wins next election, finds Institute for Government

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Britain’s schools fail legal requirement to teach money matters

      Two-fifths of teachers do not know financial literacy is compulsory in secondary education

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      Sobering drama Consent shows how schoolboy banter can turn violent

      Channel 4’s ‘factual drama’ draws on real data to paint a worrying picture of sexual misconduct in UK schools

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Lucy Heller
      Teachers’ strike lays bare the heartbreaking plight of schools

      When disadvantaged pupils fall behind, the untapped potential is not just a moral disaster but an economic one too

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      UK braced for biggest strike day since 2011 as ministers resist pay rises

      Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers set to walk out on Wednesday in co-ordinated action

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Teachers’ strike exposes deficiencies in Britain’s education system

      Achievement, attendance and recruitment levels fail to recover from Covid’s battering

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      UK braced for biggest day of strikes this winter

      Workers from rail, teaching and university sectors to walk out on February 1 in co-ordinated action over pay

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      ChatGPT will force school exams out of the dark ages

      Too much of our testing regime still remains fixated on being able to regurgitate information

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      Teachers in England and Wales vote to strike over pay

      Biggest education union announces seven days of walkouts in February and March

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Claer Barrett
      Why do Brits hate maths? Go figure

      Poor numeracy is a problem, but Rishi Sunak needs to show his workings for compulsory maths until age 18

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      England’s teachers warn extra funding needed to make maths compulsory until 18

      Educators welcome government plans but say without investment proposal is ‘unachievable’

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      IB TOK class - Simon Schama: art versus the tyrants

      The arts, History

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Economics class: Scotland top-rate tax rises widen gap with rest of UK

      Taxation

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Business class: Mars convinces emerging market consumers to eat more chocolate

      Global marketing

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Politics class: Extinction Rebellion abandons disruptive climate protests in UK

      Pressure groups

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Politics class: The inside story of Liz Truss’s disastrous 44 days in office

      Prime Minister and Cabinet

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Philosophy class: Can Just Stop Oil make the case for protest?

      Moral philosophy

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      Lucy Kellaway’s lessons on life from moving to the North East

      Six months after relocating from London, the former FT columnist has a new perspective on what really matters

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Ian Benson
      Mathematics education in the UK does not add up

      If we are going to reskill the workforce, we must start with delivering in schools

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Staff shortages hitting education in England, says Ofsted

      Nurseries forced to close and class sizes growing in schools and colleges, finds inspectorate

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Why is personal finance not being taught more in schools?

      British schools face barriers to keeping cash management classes on curriculum, despite students’ desire to learn

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      UK Health Security Agency
      UK considers precautionary antibiotics for children as Strep A cases rise

      Schools minister says health agency ‘working closely with schools’ after increase in scarlet fever infections

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      Private schools are an easy target for Labour, but not a risk-free one

      Removing the VAT exemption is harder than it looks, and may backfire if it prompts scrutiny of the party’s tax-raising plans

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