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Search Results for Free schools

Children eating a meal in a school canteen
Opinion

Expanding free school meals is essential to help families cope with the cost of living crisis

Shona Goudie
1 November, 2022

Every child in households receiving Universal Credit should be guaranteed free school meals

class pay gap

Earnings gap between those who were on free school meals and privately educated peers revealed

Basit Mahmood
4 August, 2022

Even when those who were on FSM have the same qualification level, educational attainment and labour market experience as their private school peers, FSM students earn 20% less than an independent school student at age of 30.

Tory leadership debate

‘Reactionary and regressive’: Tory leadership candidates slammed for promising the return of grammar schools

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 July, 2022

“How anyone can still argue that grammar schools are the magic wand to improve our broken education system beggars belief.”

Johnson at a school

Government shelves free school meals for tens of thousands of children

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 June, 2022

Boris Johnson is facing another backlash following the ditching of the free school meal extension for up to one million pupils.

Eton

Private schools aren’t ‘losing’ places at Oxbridge, their unfair privileges are being tackled- that’s all

Basit Mahmood
16 May, 2022

When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression

Schools at risk of staff exodus over low pay, UNISON warns

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 November, 2021

As thousands of UK schools take part in today’s ‘Stars in our Schools’ in celebration of support staff, a report shows the intense financial struggle of school employees on low pay.

Report unveils flaws in the school funding system

The ‘reverse of levelling up’: Report shows funding model is failing disadvantaged schools

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 October, 2021

A parliamentary report finds schools in the most deprived areas in England are getting less money than more affluent institutions, sparking doubt over Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ agenda.

Green Party co-leaders Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer

Free bus travel or bin strikes? – The Greens running local government

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

How is the Green Party coping with running local councils?

Children living in poverty

Schools are propping up a ‘failing welfare state’ – report

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 October, 2021

Families in need are turning to schools for the support the welfare system is failing to provide.

Children in school

Everything Gavin Williamson could be doing to support schools instead of banning mobile phones

Andrew Kersley
28 April, 2021

There’s a record gap in outcomes between the poorest and wealthiest students, and sky-high dissatisfaction from teaching staff

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