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‘The Culture War is Dead: Long Live the Culture War’
Julian Petley explains why the University of Sussex ‘freedom of expression’ case is so concerning
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UK Universities Accused of Training Police and Security Officers for Repressive Dictatorships Without Screening Students
Almost no checks are in place to ensure training is not used to clamp down on human rights and peaceful dissent, say campaigners
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‘This One London School Offers a Beacon of Hope for Transforming Our Education System’
This is a real time petri dish experiment on how to transform Britain’s education system, argues Neal Lawson
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Damning Report Exposes the Sheer Scale of Britain’s Crumbling Public Sector Left by the Conservatives
It blows a hole in the party’s claim to have ‘fixed the roof while the sun is shining’
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Special Needs Child Provision in Crisis as 40% of Local Authorities Risk Going Bust
There is a looming crisis of growing special needs requirements and threatened council bankruptcies, according to a damning new report by MPs
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Privilege and Property: ‘How Reporting on Private School and Farm Taxes Reveals More About Newspaper Owners Than Anything Else’
Hysteria around Labour’s VAT on private schools and inheritance tax on farms are not the existential threats they’ve been made out to be in the press
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University of Oxford’s Riches are Built by Hundreds of Insecure Workers – Why are they Fighting Them?
The prestigious university is resisting demands for fair treatment from casualised staff, despite its vast wealth
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‘How Can Northern Ireland’s Education System Still Be Divided Across Religious and Community Lines?
The next generation cannot take forward the peace process if they continue to be subject to segregation and reinforced division that defined previous generations, argues Emma DeSouza
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Cambridge Students Vow ‘More Protests’ After University Decides to Accept ‘Large Gift’ Donations from Fossil Fuel Companies
The University overruled its temporary ban on fossil fuel cash with a new policy which could see it take multi-million-pound gifts from the industry
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Children’s Special Needs System ‘Broken’ – With a Quarter of Councils Facing Bankruptcy by 2026, Report Finds
Councils are struggling to cope with a huge rise in demand while standards in reading, writing, and mathematics have either stagnated or fallen during the past decade
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Sunak’s Government Did Not Know How Schools Spent £9.2 Billion a Year Allocated to Help Disadvantaged Children
‘There has been a lack of sustained progress by government in reducing the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers’, a new report by the National Audit Office has found
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Report on Closure of Private School is ‘Attempt by Conservative Establishment to Scare Voters Away From Labour – and has Nothing to do With Party’s VAT Payment Plans’
Alton School is closing due to a “continued decline in pupil numbers” and years of financial challenges, yet the closure is being reported in connection with Labour plans to introduce a 20% VAT levy on private school fees
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‘Back Door into Student Loan System for Organised Fraudsters Left Hanging Wide Open’
A new report by the Public Accounts Committee found that a lack of government oversight of the system is leaving it open to significant amounts of fraud
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‘The Prayer Ban at Michaela Community School Will Not Set a Landmark Precedent’
The CEO of the Islamophobia Response Unit sets out the significance of the High Court’s ruling being made in a very specific context of one school’s strict behavioural regime
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The Free Speech Union’s Key Role in Developing Government Legislation
Karam Bales examines the close links between the FSU, the Office for Students and the Government’s drive to legislate on freedom of speech
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Rishi Sunak’s Head Boy Energy
Becoming Prime Minister wasn’t the first significant position Sunak was handed – Winchester College taught him a thing or two about prestige without power, writes Richard Beard
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Big Oil’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Influence Exposed as Cambridge University Cuts Funding Ties
There is mounting evidence that the fossil fuel industry is involved in an extensive disinformation campaign
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The Funding Crisis in Schools is Reaching Catastrophic Levels
Leicestershire School Heads have opened their books to parents showing them just how much they are struggling
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Private Equity in Public Services: The Case of Special Educational Needs Schools
Private equity companies – many with connections to the Conservative Party – have been buying up large swathes of the public sector, including care homes, schools and GP surgeries. Special schools appear to be the latest hot property
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Abuse and Safeguarding: What’s Going Wrong at Eton?
With its fourth former staff member charged with the sexual abuse of children in recent years, Byline Times delves into the dark past of Britain’s most famous – and troubled – private school
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Music in Schools: A Plea
In the wake of Lord Melvyn Bragg’s House of Lords debate on the vital importance of the arts to the UK’s society and economy, composer Howard Goodall makes an urgent call for the Government to rethink its proposed further reduction of resources for musical education
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Sister of Headteacher Ruth Perry Demands Overhaul of How Work-Linked Suicides are Investigated
Severe cramp from work must be reported to the safety regulator – but not work-related suicides. Campaigners want action beyond Ofsted reform
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Department for Education Under Fire for Failing to Reveal UK Boarding School Abuse Allegations
Iain Overton examines the dreadful record of sexual abuse in boarding schools and asks whether the conditions which allowed historic assaults to flourish are now being addressed
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Johnson and Williamson Ignored COVID Safety Warnings in Schools as Ministers ‘Didn’t Want to Give an Inch to Unions’
England was the last of the four nations to require masks in schools following heavy resistance from the then Prime Minister and Education Secretary
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The ‘Secret Lessons Plan’ : Sex and Relationship Education in Schools Targeted by Christian Nationalism Groups
The culture wars rumble on in British education with a combination of opaquely funded think tanks and activist groups influencing Government policy
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From Ctrl+v to ChatGPT: Generative AI Marks a Third Wave of Technological Disruption in Higher Education
Effie Webb reports on how radically the academic landscape has changed, in a short space of time, through AI and remote learning
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Lords Report Slams Office for Students as a Potential ‘Smoke Screen’ for Post-Brexit Culture Wars
UK higher education qualifications have been suspended from the European quality standards body because of the way the Office for Students was regulating universities.
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Britain’s Best Days are Behind Us Under the Conservatives, Say British People
A majority of voters believe “nothing in Britain really works” and say Rishi Sunak’s party has made public services worse, according to an exclusive new poll
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‘Austerity is a False Economy that has Brought the Nation’s Roof Crumbling Down’
The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to ‘fix the roof while the sun was shining’
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How the Government Failed to Act on the Collapsing School Building Scandal
Ministers’ claims that the school building scandal only emerged ‘over the summer’ is contradicted by evidence of warnings going back years
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Blood, Faeces, Rubbish, Mice: The Student Accommodation Crisis Laid Bare
Student housing has never been known for its quality but, in recent years, the system has been pushed to breaking point
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The White Ear of Ofsted and the ‘Sonic Surveillance’ of Education
The focus on ‘language’ policing by the arbiters of educational standards exacerbates class and racial inequalities argues a new report
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Back to School Knives: The Dark Underbelly of Influencers’ Favourite New Shopping App
How is a shopping site operating in the UK able to market knives seemingly at school kids without sanction? Katherine Denkinson investigates.
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‘Who or What to Blame? Education, Education, Education’
Too many voters are insufficiently informed and reflective to vote other than tribally or self-interestedly in exploitable ways due to failings in how we conceive of ‘education’, writes AC Grayling
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Teaching into the Void: How COVID-19 Broke the Education Sector
The current spate of industrial action is the symptom of a deeper malaise revealed by the pandemic: a Government apathetic to the plight of teachers
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UCEA Chair Comments on Marking Boycott are ‘Disgraceful’ and ‘Inhumane’ as Lecturers Struggle During Cost of Living Crisis
Lecturers and students are upset about remarks preferring ‘pain along the way’ over industrial action
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The Michaela School, Katharine Birbalsingh and the New Culture War Frontier
Byline Times delves into the Michaela Community School and its key backers.
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Braverman and Birbalsingh: The Close Tory Ties of the Right Wing’s Beloved ‘Strictest Headmistress’
Byline Times investigates the financial and ideological links surrounding the Michaela School, delving into their potential impact on educational policies and practices.
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REVEALED: Student Group with Links to the Far-Right to Protest Socialist Festival
Byline Times investigates a small but vocal “anti-anti fascist” group that is increasingly targeting the left.
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Hundreds of Thousands of Pupils at Schools in Danger of Imminent Collapse Without Warning
A new report by the National Audit Office sounds the alarm on the state of school buildings requiring major refurbishment
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Revealed: The Charles Koch Foundation’s Staggering Donations to UK’s Top Universities
New research by Byline Times reveals that billionaire oil magnate Charles Koch – behind hundreds of millions in annual donations promoting climate science disinformation and right-wing causes in the US – has been contributing to academic research in UK institutions
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An Experiment in Herd Immunity? Missing Data on COVID Deaths in Education
Was the UK trying to use schools to “booster” infections in the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic? Did teachers suffer? There is little data to prove either way
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UK Lecturers Face Devastating Salary Deductions in Marking Boycott: Academics Speak Out
University workers are fighting for job security and fair pay. But docking lecturers’ pay risks worsening industrial action, UCU activist Dr Antonia Dawes writes
