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  • Saturday, 24 March, 2018
    Anjana Ahuja
    Genetics and the truth about selective schools

    Government policy is favouring children who already have a head start

    Saturday, 24 March, 2018
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2018
    UK schools
    BoE and FT launch student blog competition

    Sixth formers across the UK invited to submit commentary on economics

    Tuesday, 27 February, 2018
  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    Bronwen Maddox
    Times tables tests can cure Britain’s maths phobia

    A country that prides itself on its way with words must teach vital numerical skills

    Friday, 16 February, 2018
  • Monday, 5 February, 2018
    Education
    Lincoln College looks to Saudi Arabia to secure future

    Almost half of its annual revenue comes from Saudi contracts and 300 staff are in the kingdom

    Monday, 5 February, 2018
  • Monday, 22 January, 2018
    UK social mobility
    Schools seek to raise pupils’ life chances

    ‘Opportunity areas’ aim to improve educational attainment and social mobility

    Monday, 22 January, 2018
  • Saturday, 13 January, 2018
    David Laws
    Grammar schools and tuition fees are not the answer

    The reshuffle at education could mean taking another wrong turn on social mobility

    Saturday, 13 January, 2018
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2017
    Frederick Studemann
    China falls for the charms of an English education

    What happens when your alma mater goes global?

    Wednesday, 20 December, 2017
  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2017
    UK schools
    130 English schools fail to gain ‘good’ rating

    Ofsted chief reveals ‘intractable’ problems blocking improvements

    Wednesday, 13 December, 2017
  • Tuesday, 12 December, 2017
    Special Report Artificial intelligence and robotics
    Education must transform to ready people for AI

    Schools will need to teach know-how, not know-what

    Tuesday, 12 December, 2017
  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 11 December, 2017
    Review Brexit
    ‘Languages After Brexit’, edited by Michael Kelly

    An assessment of linguistic challenges facing the UK and its monolingual majority

    Monday, 11 December, 2017
  • Friday, 8 December, 2017
    UK schools
    Ten ways to a cheap private school education

    Advice on scholarships, sibling discounts and how to negotiate

    Friday, 8 December, 2017
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2017
    Chinese society
    Westminster School to teach Chinese curriculum in China

    Political education at UK private school’s new sites to fall under Communist party direction

    Thursday, 7 December, 2017
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2017
    Roula Khalaf
    A love of maths multiplies Britain’s potential

    For more children to continue their studies, the lessons have to be more compelling

    Wednesday, 6 December, 2017
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2017
    Inside Business Sarah Gordon
    Brexit and outdated education risk UK tech ambitions

    Hiring push by Facebook and Google obscures longer-term threats to British innovation

    Wednesday, 6 December, 2017
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2017
    UK Budget
    Boost for maths and computing in schools

    ‘More maths for everyone,’ says UK chancellor Philip Hammond

    Wednesday, 22 November, 2017
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
    Special Report Mental health
    Pressure on UK schools to tackle mental health grows

    Evidence shows state-funded programmes need to start earlier

    Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
    Special Report Education
    Global education stakes rise for a system threatened by skills crisis

    A fierce debate continues on how to equip young people for future jobs

    Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2017
    UK schools
    Headteachers hit out at funding formula for schools

    Letter sent to Hammond says funding cuts are forcing heads to ask parents for money

    Tuesday, 14 November, 2017
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2017
    Lucy Kellaway
    Could do better: my first half term as a teacher

    Lucy Kellaway left the FT this year to retrain. Here is her report card

    Thursday, 19 October, 2017
  • Saturday, 23 September, 2017
    Miranda Green
    No more teenage kicks for today’s young

    Living life online and in public takes a toll on our children’s mental health

    Saturday, 23 September, 2017
  • Friday, 15 September, 2017
    Helen Lewis
    Sometimes a boy in a dress is just a boy in a dress

    Commercial pressure is making us anxious when children do not conform to stereotypes

    Friday, 15 September, 2017
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2017
    UK schools
    New numeracy tests planned as England scraps SATs

    Education secretary Justine Greening says changes will ‘free up teachers’

    Thursday, 14 September, 2017
  • Friday, 8 September, 2017
    FT Magazine
    I took maths GCSE at the age of 53. Here’s what happened

    To help her daughter with the new, uber-rigorous exam, Sophie Hanscombe signed up herself 

    Friday, 8 September, 2017
  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    Miranda Green
    The rigged crapshoot of top exam grades

    Cheating scandal in elite schools highlights a wider university entrance stitch-up

    Friday, 1 September, 2017
  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: why we went back to school

    When the FT columnist announced she would retrain as a teacher, she called on others to join her. So will they be any good?

    Friday, 1 September, 2017
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