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Education

  • Students shout at protest

    Trump officials halt billions in fresh Harvard grants unless university bows to demands – as it happened

    Education secretary Linda McMahon informs university president Alan Garber of news in deeply partisan letter
  • Activists hold up placards

    Trump blocks grant funding for Harvard until it meets president’s demands

  • Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen

    France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe

  • ‘The only thing we can’t do is hear’: the deaf pupil who beat Fife council in court

  • Texas governor signs largest US school voucher law in win for conservatives

  • Headteachers’ union takes legal action against Ofsted over inspection changes

  • Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time

  • Headteachers in England, Wales and NI say Send provision crisis is worsening

  • The way universities can survive the Trump era? Band together in an alliance

    David Kirp
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In depth

  • black and white photo of young men in boater hats walking past a man in an academic gown

    Class act: can Harrow sell an elitist British boarding school fantasy to New Yorkers?

  • A clock and old school desk with paper and pencils on top of it.

    Extra exam time: why do so many schoolkids suddenly need it?

    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?
  • Penelope Brown

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

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

  • Teacher and students gathered around a table

    The Guardian view on teachers’ pay: ministers must fund an increase

  • Pro-Harvard demonstrators rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    The Guardian view on Trump v universities: essential institutions must defend themselves

  • Eva Wiseman

    Absentee students should make us ask, what is school for?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Kenan Malik

    Trump’s political bullying of Harvard will do nothing to foster diversity of thought

    Kenan Malik
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