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  • A black and white picture of Ruth Perry attached to a fence

    Inquiry into headteacher’s suicide says ‘macho culture’ of inspections must end

    Independent inquiry into death of Ruth Perry after Ofsted inspection says ‘public excoriation of individuals’ must stop
  • Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

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

    UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students

  • Keir Starmer on collision course with unions over public sector pay

  • School heads urge Labour to continue funding national tutoring scheme

  • High court allows two UK universities to remove Gaza protest camps

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

    Adrian Chiles
  • Former girls’ school in London to reopen as pioneering youth hub

  • Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – as it happened

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  • University lecturer writing on a blackboard

    Inept managers have left universities at crisis point

  • Tents on a lawn in front of university buildings

    Gaza protest camps at UK universities wind down amid legal action

    • Mariyah Ali outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London

      Birmingham University censoring student beliefs over Gaza camp evictions, court hears

    • Illustration: Guardian Design

      How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster – podcast

    • NSW police at the scene of an alleged stabbing at University of Sydney

      University of Sydney stabbing: 14-year-old may have been influenced by ‘salad bar’ of ideologies, police allege

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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

  • 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
  • Teenage girl playing snooker.

    The Guardian view on youth clubs: these vital institutions do more than prevent crime

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