“We shouldn’t say you’re not allowed in, but then send all our old-age pensioners to Spain.” Channel 4 News spoke to sixth form students for their rarely heard take on the immigration debate.
No-one really asks young people about immigration – despite politicians and pundits alike claiming it affects their future. So Channel 4 News went to Sandwell College, in Birmingham, to find out more.
What do young people think about immigration? Channel 4 News visits Boston Spa School Sixth Form in Yorkshire to find out.
Lucy Broomfield, who turned 14 the week Northern Rock collapsed, writes for Channel 4 News about growing up in austerity-hit Britain.
Should immigrants be forced to learn English? Somali-born reporter Jamal Osman’s struggle to understand our language saw him engaging with some unlikely allies to make his way in the UK.
The founder of the Kings Science Academy in Bradford, Sajid Raza, is arrested and bailed by police investigating suspected fraud offences. The academy was one of the country’s first free schools.
Sir Tony Robinson hits back at claims by Michael Gove that Blackadder was used as a propaganda tool by “left-wing academics”, saying his comments amount to “slagging off teachers”.
The government should give means-tested vouchers to working class families to help them buy their children some of the advantages that more affluent families can afford, the Sutton Trust suggests.
Grammar schools are “stuffed full” of middle-class children and do not improve the chances of poorer pupils, claims the Ofsted chief inspector.
Private school alumni dominate the country says Ukip’s Nigel Farage, so bringing back grammar schools would make things “fairer”. He tells Matt Frei: “What we’ve got now are a self-perpetuating rich”.
“None of the school’s teachers were delivering good lessons” – the Discovery New School in Sussex becomes the first free school to be closed by the government after “grave concern” over standards.
Guidance on the gender segregation of audiences in lectures and debates has been withdrawn, after Prime Minister David Cameron said it should not be allowed to happen.
The chief inspector of schools in England says many places simply aren’t aiming high enough while white pupils from inner cities don’t seem to be doing as well as they should.
Thousands of students from across the UK meet in central London for a national day of protest, after police made 41 arrests during a student demonstration last week.
As a nation we undervalue education – perhaps not of our own children, but of other people’s. Yes, there are statistical issues with Pisa, but the relative direction of travel is abundantly clear.