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• £5bn debt crisis of special educational needs ‘could bankrupt’ English councils July 24, 2024
  Increased demand for children’s services leading to meltdown, warn local authority leadersA £5bn debt crisis caused by out-of-control overspending on special educational needs could explode in less than two years, bankrupting scores of England’s local authorities, the UK government has been warned.The crisis stems from the failure to properly fund a huge increase in demand […]
  Patrick Butler Social policy editor
• Third of Team GB athletes for Paris Olympics educated privately July 24, 2024
  Study finds 33.3% of squad went to private schools, up nine percentage points from 24% in 2016 teamThe proportion of privately educated athletes in the Team GB squad has increased to a third of all competitors, a study has found.Of the 318 athletes in the 2024 Team GB squad schooled in the UK, 106 or […]
  Jamie Grierson
• Tackling misogyny in UK schools could take up to 20 years, says Jess Phillips July 24, 2024
  Exclusive: Safeguarding minister outlines measures to protect women and girls, including plans for ‘Raneem’s law’Plans to tackle misogyny in schools could take up to 20 years to have an impact on society, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said as she outlined measures to protect women and girls.Phillips spoke the day after the National Police […]
  Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor
• Rock star Stevie Van Zandt in plea for more arts and music in English schools July 23, 2024
  Exclusive: E Street Band and Sopranos star visits south London to see his TeachRock programme in actionLegendary guitarist and Sopranos star Stevie Van Zandt has made an impassioned plea for more arts and music in England’s schools as a way of engaging disaffected young people during a visit to south London.It was a last day […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• Ucas personal statements weren’t read by academics | Letter July 23, 2024
  A reader who was a university programme director responds to the news that personal statements are to be scrappedRe your article (Farewell, Ucas personal statements: I won’t miss your hackneyed, cliche-ridden prose, 20 July), while I was the director of an interdisciplinary (combined honours) programme at a Russell Group university, the most common question I […]
  Guardian Staff
• Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths July 23, 2024
  As Those About to Die brings swords and sandals back to the screen, the ‘Colosseum consultant’ who advises all the epic productions about accuracy tells us why he is ‘paid to be ignored’One of the many things Alexander Mariotti wants you to know about Those About to Die, the new Amazon Prime show set in […]
  Ralph Jones
• Send us your old Ucas personal statements July 23, 2024
  To mark the end of the personal statement for university applications in Britain, we would like to see your old onesThe Ucas personal statement has long been a dreaded stage in the university application process for teenagers.But from next year, the 4,000 character statement will be replaced by a set of questions on why students […]
  Guardian community team
• What could £700m cost of Rwanda scheme have paid for instead? July 22, 2024
  Scheme denounced as ‘shocking waste’ by new home secretary could have funded teachers, border force officers or renewable energy farmsFailed Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says Yvette CooperThe home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has revealed the Conservatives’ Rwanda scheme cost taxpayers £700m, calling it the “most shocking waste of taxpayers’ money I have ever seen”.Here we […]
  Jamie Grierson