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  • Children with their hands up in response to their teacher, in a lesson

    The Guardian view on the teacher shortage: flexibility and career breaks could help

    To tackle staff shortages, jobs in schools and other public services must be made more attractive
  • Sikh musicians playing traditional instruments

    First ‘globally recognised’ music exam for Sikh sacred music launched in UK

  • Students get lunch

    Why unpaid US school lunch debt can prompt a call to child welfare services

  • Ten children drew their favourite sea creatures. Then Australia’s leading artists responded – in pictures

  • Swedish children to start school a year earlier in move away from play

  • ‘A brave new world for educators’: teachers respond to nine-day-fortnight proposals

  • ‘Incredibly disheartening’ decline in special needs pupil attainment in England

  • Teachers in England offered lie-ins to make job more appealing

  • Create ‘universal library card’ to democratise the arts, says UK thinktank

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In depth

  • Vicki Dean, principal of Tenbury High academy

    How going phone-free taught pupils at English secondary ‘to socialise, old school’

  • Whether it’s climbing or another activity, it’s healthy to challenge yourself.

    ‘You don’t have to be good’: the lazy student’s guide to getting fit

    Exercise need not be complicated, boring or expensive. There are plenty of activities to choose from – and you can even get fit from the comfort of your university bedroom
  • Degree apprentices spend roughly 80% of their time at work, 20% studying.

    Earn while you learn: is a degree apprenticeship the right choice for you?

    Avoid student debt and gather the skills that most needed by prospective employers as you study on this new style of course
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Opinion

  • A child under a blanket playing with a smartphone

    The Guardian view on children and smartphones: setting some limits is a good idea

  • Simon Jenkins

    Bankrupt and ravaged by student mental illness, Britain’s universities are badly in need of reform

    Simon Jenkins
  • Manar Al Khodari

    By bombing Gaza’s schools, Israel is taking aim at my future. But it will not succeed

    Manar Al Khodari
  • Susanna Rustin

    The threat to BTec courses in England is the educational scandal no one’s talking about

    Susanna Rustin
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