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Thursday, 15 October, 2020

UK universities
Universities expose uneven playing field on Covid testing
Despite developing bespoke student testing programmes, UK campuses have been struggling to contain the virus
Wednesday, 14 October, 2020

LexFootball
English football: the grass brutes game
Project Big Picture might have worthy goals, but mid-tier sides might not want to play along
Tuesday, 13 October, 2020

Geography class: Covid-19: The global crisis — in data
Disease dilemmas
Tuesday, 13 October, 2020

Business class: John Lewis triples cost-cutting target
Strategy and competitiveness
Monday, 12 October, 2020

AnalysisUK politics & policy
Boris Johnson’s education reforms face big hurdles, experts warn
PM’s push to end snobbery over technical courses must involve carrot and stick, say sector leaders
Sunday, 11 October, 2020

Veronica Kan-Dapaah
Why aspirational families go the extra mile to selective schools
Despite evidence that UK grammar schools have a limited effect on social mobility, some parents are undeterred
Thursday, 8 October, 2020

Politics class: Will America tear itself apart?
US Constitution
Thursday, 8 October, 2020

Economics class: Beijing’s first bond offer to US investors draws record demand
Demand and supply
Thursday, 8 October, 2020

FT MagazineSimon Kuper
Why the US and UK face a university challenge
‘If you’re 18 and looking to study in English, British and American colleges are no longer the obvious choice’
Tuesday, 6 October, 2020

AnalysisHong Kong politics
Beijing wrestles for control of Hong Kong’s classrooms
Authorities are investigating schoolteachers for stirring up their pupils
Sunday, 4 October, 2020

Economics class: Banks rebuff Boris Johnson’s call for low-deposit mortgages
The housing market
Sunday, 4 October, 2020

Politics class: A new cold war: Trump, Xi and the escalating US-China confrontation
Power and Developments
Sunday, 4 October, 2020

ESL class: describing economic trends
Trends
Sunday, 4 October, 2020

Politics class: ‘Maoist’ Downing Street faces its own revolution
Parliament and Executive
Sunday, 4 October, 2020

Geography class: Covid-19 will push millions in middle-income nations into poverty, warns World Bank
Changing spaces, disease dilemmas
Sunday, 4 October, 2020

Politics class: Donald Trump must not be how American democracy dies
Presidential elections
Friday, 2 October, 2020

Camilla Cavendish
Vocation, vocation should be UK middle class’s new mantra
Technical skills and vocational training may be worth more than a university education
Friday, 2 October, 2020

Politics class: China’s geopolitics are pumped up by its economic success
Power and Developments
Friday, 2 October, 2020

Geography class: China pledges to be ‘carbon-neutral’ by 2060
Climate change, Earth life support systems
Friday, 2 October, 2020

Business class: Cineworld set to shut all UK and US screens
Strategy / external environment
Tuesday, 29 September, 2020

The FT ViewEducation
A welcome boost to adult education in England
The prime minister’s plan could help to close the skills gap
Monday, 28 September, 2020

Economics class: Britain’s over-50s rethink plans as virus takes toll on retirement
Labour markets & employment
Tuesday, 22 September, 2020

Vic Goddard
Test and trace is failing UK schools
Teachers have been told repeatedly that the country is grateful, but words are starting to ring hollow
Friday, 18 September, 2020

Geography class: Wildfires, hurricanes and vanishing sea ice: the climate crisis is here
Climate change
Friday, 18 September, 2020

Education
The future of the university in the age of Covid
As students start a term like no other, higher education is being reinvented for the post-pandemic world