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    Girl who died in Wirral school bus crash was wearing seatbelt, inquest hears

    Coroner finds Jessica Baker, 15, died from head injury after driver collapsed at wheel on M53
  • Police headshot of Rebecca Joynes

    Manchester teacher who groomed two boys jailed for six-and-a-half years

  • Young people gather on a hilltop called the 'roof of Tehran' to watch the sunset. Photo: Stefanie Glinski

    ‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran

  • Goldsmiths ‘determined’ to close Black British literature course, critics say

  • Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne

  • Half of nursing students in England have considered quitting, survey finds

  • ‘Here comes the sun’: Zadie Smith on hope, trepidation and rebirth after 14 years of the Tories

  • ‘It’s the future of sugar’: new technology feeds Vermont maple syrup boom amid climate crisis

  • ‘Reading’s in danger’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce on books, kids – and the explosive power of Heidi

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  • Mariyah Ali outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London

    Birmingham University censoring student beliefs over Gaza camp evictions, court hears

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    How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster – podcast

    • NSW police at the scene of an alleged stabbing at University of Sydney

      University of Sydney stabbing: 14-year-old may have been influenced by ‘salad bar’ of ideologies, police allege

    • Broken Uni tory mortarboard illustration

      How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster

    • Close-up portrait of Jeni Larmour

      UK universities urged to end drugs zero tolerance and focus on harm reduction

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In depth

  • Trump on stage in front of a large sign saying 'Faith'

    Trump and Project 2025 are attacking the Department of Education. How might they reshape US schools?

  • Maggie Aderin-Pocock smiles as she sits between two pupils at a table

    ‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees

    Staff at Essex primary describe struggle to secure support and the difference a charity’s specialist training made
  • Pupils sit together eating a meal

    Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school’s radical 12-hour day

    All Saints Catholic College aiming to ‘give children their childhood back’ by breaking their screen addictions
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Opinion

  • Teenage girl playing snooker.

    The Guardian view on youth clubs: these vital institutions do more than prevent crime

  • Simon Jenkins

    Message to Labour: don’t tax school fees. Make private schools work for the public good

    Simon Jenkins
  • Bridget Phillipson

    For me, Ms Haq was the teacher you never forget. But today’s Ms Haqs are quitting

    Bridget Phillipson
  • Eva Wiseman

    The schools debate is asking all the wrong questions

    Eva Wiseman
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