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Economics class: teaching ideas

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Geography class

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Read a selection of FT articles picked by our panel of teacher advisers

Read a selection of FT articles picked by our teacher advisers

IB DP Theory of knowledge class

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FT Schools competition: how can we help children learn?

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Friday, 22 January, 2021

Education
Educators around world seek to take axe to exam-based learning
Covid era prompts push to ditch one-size-fits-all approach in favour of skills and independent thinking
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021

Schools digest: WhatsApp setback, A level exams, Theory of Knowledge
A weekly round-up for teachers and students
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021

Business class: Online sprees help Britain’s shops defy the doomsayers
Political/economics influences
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021

Geography class: US warns Beijing over incursion into Taiwanese air defence zone
Power as borders
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021

Economics class: Covid congestion raises the spectre of inflation
Inflation
Monday, 18 January, 2021

Rohinton P Medhora
We need a new era of international data diplomacy
Global standards on collection, storage and use would improve health while protecting privacy
Friday, 15 January, 2021

Camilla Cavendish
Young people’s mental health must be a priority this lockdown
For some children the pandemic will build resilience, but many others will bear scars
Thursday, 14 January, 2021

John Thornhill
Conspiracy theorists destroy a rational society: resist them
We need to rebut propagandist falsehoods before they infect the real world
Wednesday, 13 January, 2021

GCSE and A-level students in England could sit exams this year
Guidance from Gavin Williamson looks at externally set papers for teachers to mark
Tuesday, 12 January, 2021

Politics class: Donald Trump’s weaponised lies blew up in his face
US presidency
Tuesday, 12 January, 2021

Theory of knowledge class: Year in a word: Cancelled
Language
Tuesday, 12 January, 2021

Politics class: Biden to unwind Trump agenda with raft of executive orders
US presidency
Tuesday, 12 January, 2021

Theory of knowledge class: The backlash against colonialism holds lessons in guilt and gratitude
History
Tuesday, 12 January, 2021

Business class: LVMH names new team to run Tiffany
Business growth
Tuesday, 12 January, 2021

Geography class: Coronavirus sparks exodus of foreign-born people from UK
Global Migration
Monday, 11 January, 2021

Schools digest: Pandemic winners, Trump pressure, student competitions
A weekly round-up for teachers and students
Friday, 8 January, 2021

Jill Kelsall
Home-schooling tips for locked-down parents
What can we do to survive pandemic mayhem and ensure our children emerge unscathed?
Wednesday, 30 December, 2020

UK schools
Secondary school reopening delayed as England’s Covid levels soar
Classes in areas with highest rates of virus will not fully restart until at least January 18
Tuesday, 29 December, 2020

Janan Ganesh
Covid has no grand lesson for the world
Data on the pandemic does not vindicate one political or economic system over others
Saturday, 26 December, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
UK doctors flag mental pressures pandemic puts on young people
Coronavirus has mostly spared teenagers physically but it is taking an alarming toll on their mental health
Wednesday, 23 December, 2020

Oren Cass
Complacency and wasteful spending blight US higher education
Forgiving billions of dollars of student debt is a bad idea
Wednesday, 23 December, 2020

The FT ViewThe editorial board
Pandemic calls for a new approach to growth
Record-breaking plunges in national income do not reflect the full damage to wellbeing
Saturday, 19 December, 2020

LexAgeing Populations
Demographics: the army of the old Premium
Later retirement has investment implications, including putting more money in the vaunted silver purse
Monday, 14 December, 2020

Gideon Rachman
Britain will do a Brexit deal on Europe’s terms
A power asymmetry puts the UK at a disadvantage in the negotiations
Monday, 14 December, 2020

ReviewBooks
A statistical history of Britain fit for the census year
Boris Starling scours the ONS in order to retell the story of the nation in data