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Labour's private school heroes

Jonathan Calder looks down with bafflement from the top of the Stiperstones at the Labour Party's attitude to education

In education

Life after Tom Hurndall

  • By Jocelyn Hurndall
  • 08 October

Jocelyn Hurndall - whose son Tom was unlawfully killed by the Israeli Defence Forces as he tried to rescue a Palestinian child - explains how she is putting her life back together by working with a university in the West Bank

Evolution of LittleBigPlanet

  • By Iain Simons
  • 01 October

With so much discussion in creative education about the barriers between arts and science work such as that by Media Molecule is hugely invigorating

Two diagnoses, one conclusion

  • By Martin Bright
  • 11 September

The unions and the Liberal Democrats agree on one thing: new Labour is at the end of the road

The student princes

  • By Nicholas Wapshott
  • 11 September

Observations on America

How ministers ignored the 'time bomb' in the classroom

  • By Ed Howker
  • 28 August

Concerns about asbestos in schools were first voiced in the 1960s yet 13,000 schools today still contain the substance

In a league of their own

  • By Peter Wilby
  • 07 August

The testing regime in schools does pupils no good

Feature

Class war zone

Class war zone

Aggressive and disruptive behaviour blights many state schools, and the only remedy - excluding pupils - isn't working. Mentoring troubled children is more effective...

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A Neet solution

  • By Charles Leadbeater
  • 10 July 2008

Parent power confronts Sarkozy

  • By Agnès Poirier
  • 10 July 2008

Interview: Ed Balls

  • By Martin Bright and Suzanne Moore
  • 03 July 2008

A new deal for British children

  • By Suzanne Moore
  • 03 July 2008

On summer schools

  • By SKR
  • 03 July 2008

When discrimination works

  • By Martin Bright
  • 03 July 2008

The key is respect

  • By Ed Miliband
  • 19 June 2008

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