Education

Different types of schools in UK

The United Kingdom has different types of schools to deliver education at distinct levels. Here is a glimpse of different types of schools in the UK

Labour MPs call for universal free school meals for all primary school children

A growing number of Labour MPs are calling for Sadiq Khan’s decision to provide free school meals for all primary school pupils in London to be rolled out across England.

By Nadine Batchelor-Hunt

Children lost one-third of a year’s learning to COVID, new study shows – but we need to think about

An article from The Conversation.

By Clare Wood, Director, Centre for Research in Language, Education and Developmental Inequalities, Nottingham Trent University

Former education ministers attack plan to reduce vocational qualifications

Coalition fears DfE may break pledges that only small percentage of qualifications will be replaced by T-levels.

By Richard Adams, Education Editor

Hannah Fry: studying maths until 18 will traumatise teenagers – not transform Britain

Rishi Sunak has pledged that all school children must continue maths after GCSE level. Mathematician Hannah Fry says it will cause more harm than good.

By Hannah Fry

Sunak outlines maths to 18 ‘ambition’... but not before 2025

Labour says ‘reheated’ pledge is ‘empty without more maths teachers’.

By Freddie Whittaker

Student wellbeing at secondary school: 79% of 14 year olds extremely dissatisfied

Student wellbeing drops sharply after starting secondary school with most adolescents satisfied at 11 and most extremely dissatisfied by 14.

Most Britons say schools should provide school uniforms to families

By Joanna Morris, Data Journalist

International baccalaureate: how the media helps the qualification retain prestige

An article from The Conversation.

By Saira Fitzgerald, Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University

Most schools to cut staff, axe repairs and up class sizes over funding crisis

Heads reveal ‘catastrophic’ and ‘devastating’ reality of rising costs.

By John Dickens

The school starting age

An extract from Class Rules: the truth about Scottish schools by James McEnaney.

By James McEnaney

The UK education system preserves inequality – new report

An article from The Conversation

By Imran Tahir, Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Four major challenges facing Britain’s education system after the pandemic

An article from The Conversation.

By Helena Gillespie, University of East Anglia

The new enlightened education: diversity over competition

By Shannon Rawlins

What is a free school? Everything you need to know

All children in England between the ages of 5 and 16 are entitled to a free place at a state school.

Making all schools into academies in the UK is wrong

By Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Education Union, UK 6 April 2022

Latest trends in further education and sixth form spending in England

Updated analysis of trends in further education and sixth form spending per pupil and upcoming resource challenges facing colleges and sixth forms.

By Luke Sibieta and Imran Tahir

What is an academy and what are the benefits?

A blogpost from The Education Hub.

No staring out of the window! Why super-strict schools are on the rise

Blind rule-following may improve grades but does it stamp out individuality? A teacher who has seen the results discusses the pros and cons.

By Lucy Kellaway

State vs private education: how much of a difference do Britons think it makes?

By Fintan Smith, Political Researcher