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What The Write Offs tells us about literacy in Britain

Nothing has hit me as hard as this minute of TV for months. I had been sat in my little ivory tower of ‘well, why didn’t they just learn?’, but now I felt all that come down.

Personal History

You want to understand how someone could be two people. Why you failed to recognise it at the time.

Opinion – Britain’s education system must break its silence

TW: Racism During the six months I spent in Australia in Year 9 I learnt more about the history of imperialism, the atrocities committed...

Resignations at Academy following Ofsted inspection

The headteacher and governors of the Oxford Academy have resigned following the publication of an Ofsted Report which rated the School ‘inadequate.’ An Interim...

Layla Moran voted down in fight to protect Erasmus Programme

Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran pushed two amendments to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to keep UK in Erasmus+ programme and to protect...

Learning To Live – Educated by Tara Westover

‘Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery/ None but ourselves can free our mind’. These lyrics from Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ course through Tara Westover’s 2018...

DEBATE: Should private schools be taxed?

Jeremy Corbyn recently called for private schools to lose their charitable status, and therefore become taxed. Is this the right thing to do?

Secret police database harvested Prevent data from education sector

The database contains personal details and reasons for referral for every person referred to the programme. Of the 7,318 people were referred to Prevent in 2017-8, 2,426 were referred from the education sector.