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Richard Adams

Richard Adams is the Guardian's education editor

May 2025

  • Leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, addresses supporters and the media at Staffordshire County Showground.

    Badenoch apologises for local election results as Reform warned there are ‘no simple answers’ – as it happened

  • A photo of Ruth Perry

    Headteachers’ union takes legal action against Ofsted over inspection changes

  • Matt Wrack

    Matt Wrack plans to stay in post as teaching union’s general secretary

  • The backs of students' heads in a classroom with the teacher a blur at their desk. One pupil is putting her hand up.

    Schools in England and Wales urged to teach relationship violence prevention

April 2025

  • A headshot of a man wearing a jacket and white shirt looking at the camera

    Teaching union reverses Matt Wrack appointment ahead of legal challenge

  • A young girl eating her lunch at school

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

  • Nigel Farage eating cockles during a visit to Ramsgate in Kent.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Reform will axe councils’ special needs funding if they win in local elections, Lib Dems claim – as it happened

  • Matt Wrack

    Teaching union faces legal challenge over new general secretary

  • Second teachers’ union vows to strike if pay award fails to fund schools in England

  • Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools

  • Teachers’ union will campaign against Labour MPs if pay offer in England is not improved

  • A third of school staff in England report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students

  • Wealthiest English private schools spend below 6% on means-tested bursaries, research finds

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reform a ‘racist and far-right’ party, says teaching union after Farage attack – as it happened

  • Reform UK a ‘far-right and racist party’, says largest teaching union

  • Stress taking ‘immense toll’ on teachers in England as union debates industrial action

  • Ministers raise concern over NASUWT move for ‘combative’ ex-FBU chief

  • More than 90% of schools in England ban mobile phone use, survey shows

  • Girls in England feel less safe at school than they did pre-Covid, survey finds

  • We need more male teachers so British boys have role models, says minister

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