Every year, more pupils are granted special ‘access arrangements’ to give them a fairer chance in GCSEs, A-levels and other exams. But with more than 600,000 arrangements in England alone, can the schools keep up? And are some students gaming the system?

Guardian Book Blog

24.04.2025

Why I joined the trans protest against Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray | Transgender | The Guardian

I’m angry that the Woman’s Hour host, who said that trans women are not ‘real women’, was allowed to talk unopposed at my university. That is why I had to stand in solidarity with my trans friends

Guardian Book Blog

24.04.2025

Ofsted survey on improving inspections is too complicated | Ofsted | The Guardian

Letter: Frank Coffield advises setting aside plenty of time to answer long-winded questions before the 28 April deadline

Guardian Book Blog

23.04.2025

How children with special educational needs are being failed in England – video | Special educational needs | The Guardian

From anxious children unable to cope with school to those with more complex, profound disabilities, support for Send children in England is broken. The Guardian meets parents and children to get a sense of the scale of the issue

Guardian Book Blog

22.04.2025

Blind student 'dragged from Oxford Union chamber by his ankles' | University of Oxford | The Guardian

Ghanaian postgraduate student left feeling ‘unwelcome in the union, Oxford and the country’

Guardian Book Blog

22.04.2025

Questionable value of school executive roles | Academies | The Guardian

Letters: Readers raise concerns that multi-academy trusts in England are diverting funds from classrooms to corporate managers

Guardian Book Blog

22.04.2025

Oxford University identifies 145 artefacts looted in Benin raid | University of Oxford | The Guardian

Plundered items likely to be returned to Nigeria include brass plaques, bronze figures and musical instruments

Guardian Book Blog

22.04.2025

Harvard sues Trump administration over efforts to ‘gain control of academic decision-making’ | Harvard University | The Guardian

University fights back against threats to cut about $9bn in funding for school after it refused to comply with demands

Guardian Book Blog

20.04.2025

The showdown between Harvard and the White House – day by day | Harvard University | The Guardian

After months of pressure to defend itself, Harvard rejected demands from the Trump administration

Guardian Book Blog

20.04.2025

What would it mean for Trump to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status? | Harvard University | The Guardian

After cutting off $2.26bn in funding, the US president reportedly gave the IRS a potentially illegal order

Guardian Book Blog

20.04.2025

Pledge to create thousands more nursery places has backfired, early years groups say | Early years education | The Guardian

Schools are pushing out established groups as funding for more places comes on stream

Guardian Book Blog

20.04.2025

‘Breaking our spirits was the plan’: the lifelong impact of having gone to boarding school | Education | The Guardian

As a new documentary explores Boarding School Syndrome, seven former pupils share their stories…

Guardian Book Blog

20.04.2025

Second teachers’ union vows to strike if pay award fails to fund schools in England | School funding | The Guardian

NASUWT conference votes to launch strike ballot if spending review does not top up school budgets in full

Guardian Book Blog

19.04.2025

Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools | Pupil behaviour | The Guardian

Survey finds social media main cause of poor behaviour, with pupils mimicking Donald Trump and Andrew Tate

Guardian Book Blog

19.04.2025

Culture of sexual abuse in schools toxic for teachers too, says union | Teaching | The Guardian

NASUWT leader says some boys’ behaviour not acceptable and no women should feel unsafe in school

Guardian Book Blog

18.04.2025

IRS reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status | Harvard University | The Guardian

Probably illegal move against US’s richest university is latest in Trump’s attack on independence of higher education

Guardian Book Blog

18.04.2025

Teachers’ union will campaign against Labour MPs if pay offer in England is not improved | Schools | The Guardian

NEU leader tells conference delegates to prepare for industrial action if pay and funding are not satisfactory

Guardian Book Blog

18.04.2025

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’ | Academics | The Guardian

Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status

Guardian Book Blog

18.04.2025

Carol Diethe obituary | Middlesex University | The Guardian

Other lives: Lecturer in the history of ideas who became one of the UK’s leading Nietzsche scholars

Guardian Book Blog

18.04.2025

Why counting foreign students as immigrants is wrong | International students | The Guardian

Letters: They come, give us their money, then they go home, says Hans Heap. And Michael Peel agrees that they are being mislabelled

Guardian Book Blog

18.04.2025

Leading UK academics ask PhD funding body to rethink refusal of extra time | Research funding | The Guardian

Letter asks UKRI to grant further extensions to protect research and teaching for coronavirus recovery

Guardian Book Blog

18.04.2025

UK universities ‘too slow’ to address staff-student sexual relationships | Universities | The Guardian

New guidance says ‘given the power differentials’ relationships should be ‘strongly discouraged’

Guardian Book Blog

17.04.2025

Trump official threatens Harvard foreign student admissions as more universities rally in support | Harvard University | The Guardian

Kristi Noem demands university’s records on foreign students’ ‘illegal’ activities while president threatens to strip it of tax-exempt status

Guardian Book Blog

17.04.2025

A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students | Schools | The Guardian

A survey of more than 14,000 staff also found schools having to step in to provide basic household items

Guardian Book Blog

17.04.2025

Academies fuel explosion in school costs | School funding | The Guardian

Letters: Cllr Jonny Crawshaw outlines the financial perils of an education sector that is no longer fit for purpose

Guardian Book Blog

17.04.2025

Australia to woo US’s ‘smartest minds’ disfranchised by Trump research cuts | Research | The Guardian

New talent program aims to attract academics fleeing US as administration slashes higher education funding

Guardian Book Blog

17.04.2025

Peter Mitchell obituary | Education | The Guardian

Other lives: Teacher committed to providing the best for all children by championing comprehensive education

Guardian Book Blog

16.04.2025

Wealthiest English private schools spend below 6% on means-tested bursaries, research finds | Private schools | The Guardian

Data shows 200 independent schools devote fraction of fee income to support disadvantaged pupils based on family income

Guardian Book Blog

16.04.2025

Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump | Harvard University | The Guardian

Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’

Guardian Book Blog

16.04.2025

Reform UK a ‘far-right and racist party’, says largest teaching union | Schools | The Guardian

Leader of National Education Union brands Nigel Farage ‘a poundshop Donald Trump’ after he said he wished to ‘declare war’ on the organisation

Guardian Book Blog

15.04.2025

Harvard says it will not ‘yield’ to Trump demands over $9bn in funding cuts | Harvard University | The Guardian

In a message, the university’s president said it will not ‘surrender its independence’ amid crackdown on education

Guardian Book Blog

14.04.2025

Stress taking ‘immense toll’ on teachers in England as union debates industrial action | Teachers' workload | The Guardian

Research from the NEU suggests only 1.5% of school staff unaffected by stress at work

Guardian Book Blog

14.04.2025

Good news at last for early years support | Early years education | The Guardian

Letter: Dr Catherine Davies celebrates government funding for nurseries in England’s schools

Guardian Book Blog

13.04.2025

Cambridge University accused of bullying ‘cover-up’ as internal survey revealed | University of Cambridge | The Guardian

Only a quarter of staff are satisfied with how their department tackles bullying and harassment, FoI requests reveal

Guardian Book Blog

13.04.2025

Harvard University faculty sue to block Trump review of nearly $9bn in funding | Harvard University | The Guardian

Lawsuit filed along with motion for temporary restraining order calls threats an existential ‘gun to the head’

Guardian Book Blog

12.04.2025

Rafiqul Alam obituary | Teaching | The Guardian

Other lives: History teacher in Essex who later taught London children whose first language is not English

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‘I had rose-tinted spectacles’: UK city dwellers on relocating during the pandemic | London | The Guardian

Teaching union faces legal challenge over new general secretary | Teaching | The Guardian

English schools left to subsidise infants’ free meals after 3p funding increase, say leaders | School meals | The Guardian

Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities | Academics | The Guardian

Extra exam time: why do so many schoolkids suddenly need it? | Exams | The Guardian

Why I joined the trans protest against Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray | Transgender | The Guardian

Ofsted survey on improving inspections is too complicated | Ofsted | The Guardian

How children with special educational needs are being failed in England – video | Special educational needs | The Guardian

Blind student 'dragged from Oxford Union chamber by his ankles' | University of Oxford | The Guardian

Questionable value of school executive roles | Academies | The Guardian

Oxford University identifies 145 artefacts looted in Benin raid | University of Oxford | The Guardian

Harvard sues Trump administration over efforts to ‘gain control of academic decision-making’ | Harvard University | The Guardian

The showdown between Harvard and the White House – day by day | Harvard University | The Guardian

What would it mean for Trump to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status? | Harvard University | The Guardian

Pledge to create thousands more nursery places has backfired, early years groups say | Early years education | The Guardian

‘Breaking our spirits was the plan’: the lifelong impact of having gone to boarding school | Education | The Guardian

Second teachers’ union vows to strike if pay award fails to fund schools in England | School funding | The Guardian

Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools | Pupil behaviour | The Guardian

Culture of sexual abuse in schools toxic for teachers too, says union | Teaching | The Guardian

IRS reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status | Harvard University | The Guardian

Teachers’ union will campaign against Labour MPs if pay offer in England is not improved | Schools | The Guardian

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’ | Academics | The Guardian

Carol Diethe obituary | Middlesex University | The Guardian

Why counting foreign students as immigrants is wrong | International students | The Guardian

Leading UK academics ask PhD funding body to rethink refusal of extra time | Research funding | The Guardian

UK universities ‘too slow’ to address staff-student sexual relationships | Universities | The Guardian

Trump official threatens Harvard foreign student admissions as more universities rally in support | Harvard University | The Guardian

A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students | Schools | The Guardian

Academies fuel explosion in school costs | School funding | The Guardian

Australia to woo US’s ‘smartest minds’ disfranchised by Trump research cuts | Research | The Guardian

Peter Mitchell obituary | Education | The Guardian

Wealthiest English private schools spend below 6% on means-tested bursaries, research finds | Private schools | The Guardian

Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump | Harvard University | The Guardian

Reform UK a ‘far-right and racist party’, says largest teaching union | Schools | The Guardian

Harvard says it will not ‘yield’ to Trump demands over $9bn in funding cuts | Harvard University | The Guardian

Stress taking ‘immense toll’ on teachers in England as union debates industrial action | Teachers' workload | The Guardian

Good news at last for early years support | Early years education | The Guardian

Cambridge University accused of bullying ‘cover-up’ as internal survey revealed | University of Cambridge | The Guardian

Harvard University faculty sue to block Trump review of nearly $9bn in funding | Harvard University | The Guardian

Rafiqul Alam obituary | Teaching | The Guardian

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