Education

Laura Trevelyan left her job as a BBC journalist to campaign for more reparations to families affected by the legacy of slavery.

The  descendants of some of the country’s biggest slave owners have launched a joint appeal for the Government to apologise – and atone for Britain’s role in slavery – including a programme of restorative justice. The signatories include the current Earl of Harewood.

Teaching unions have called for Ofsted to pause school inspections in England after the family of a head teacher said she took her own life as a result of one of its reports.

The RMT union has rejected the latest pay offer from rail companies and Network Rail as “dreadful”. 

We’re joined by Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, and Sarah Seleznyov, co-headteacher at School 360 in Stratford, East London.

Teachers in England and Wales have voted in favour of strikes, joining a growing list of other public sector workers who are walking out over pay.

The public sector wage squeeze that’s prompting mass strikes this winter also seems to be contributing to a workforce crisis in the education system.

A survey due out next week from a teaching union will reveal the impossible financial choices headteachers are facing.

After two years of teacher assessments due to the pandemic, this year’s GCSE results day brought a predicted drop in the proportion of pupils getting top grades. 

It was a decision that America knew was coming.

It is the first time the company has cast a disabled actor in a lead role.

Tens of thousands of children in England are persistently absent from schools, according to a new report from the Children’s Commissioner, including some who haven’t returned after the pandemic lockdowns. 

We spoke to the chair of the education select committee, Conservative MP Robert Halfon. 

Exams across Britain will be graded more generously this year to take account of the disruption to education caused by the pandemic. 

Novak Djokovic isn’t the only person in the world of tennis to fall foul of Covid rules.