Human rights
Education
Access to education is far from equal, but from war zone shelters to exclusive schools, there are teachers trying their best for the next generation. Here, we discuss the numerous barriers preventing children, and adults, accessing education, including conflict, deprivation and Covid-19. Our coverage also addresses current debates in education, such as home-schooling, classroom technology and exclusions.
Abandoned: Abolition in education
England’s schools funnel its most marginalized young people towards the criminal justice system, writes Zahra Bei. But educators and young people are reimagining what’s possible.
‘Anti-nationalism’: the spectre haunting Indian higher education
Highly networked rightwing students, acting with political patronage, are stifling academic freedom, writes Sruti Bala.
The kids are not alright
Joe Ballesteros investigates the pandemic-compounded crisis in educational provision for England’s most marginalized children.
Is homeschooling socially harmful?
Does being educated at home limit or enrich children’s experiences? Lindsey T Powell and Cheryl Fields-Smith have different opinions.
‘Young people in our country need care and support to thrive’
Flavia Mutamutega, Rwanda’s sole agony aunt for adolescent girls, tells Veronique Mistiaen about the problems that preoccupy them.
The UK must stop aid to failing private schools
How did we get to the point where two African countries are trying to shut down our aid funded schools? Nick Dearden asks.
Open letter: students support no vote on pensions offer
Ahead of the results of a ballot over university pensions, students across the UK ask staff to stand firm.
Occupy: Students stand in solidarity with teachers
Holly Buck speaks with Justine Canady, UCL Women's Officer, about students taking a stand with teachers against cuts to their pensions.
Sanctuary scholarships in a cold climate
A groundbreaking project seeks to get migrant students into university. Hazel Healy reports.
Over the rainbow: South Africa’s young radicals
South Africa’s first post-apartheid generation has come of age. And they’re not happy with the way the ANC are handling things. Chris Webb explains.
How creativity is killed in the Majority World
Tamara Pearson explains why the poor are not taken seriously on creative stages.
The state of education: leaving many behind
How far is the world from the dream of universal education? Hazel Healy reports.
Between a shark and the deep sea
Can a US chain of profit-making schools really help the poor? By Patience Akumu.
Keeping schools open in Yemen
The courageous efforts of Yemeni teachers, as reported by Sawsan al-Refaei.
Bad Education: why our systems need fixing
The Right has captured education. Hazel Healy looks at the political implications.
Girls get back on track in South Sudan
How second-chance schooling turned things around for Nyanrror Teresa Marial.
Revolution in the classroom: Escuela Nueva
Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín praises Colombia’s best-known pedagogical export, Escuela Nueva.
Will Google take over the classroom?
Tamasin Cave reports on the edtech players pushing for radical changes in schools.
The West and Asian education: a fatal attraction
Why the West must stop copying China’s flawed education system, by Yong Zhao.
VIDEO: ‘This is cultural genocide’
Colombia’s Indigenous communities fight for cultural survival. Hazel Healy reports.
Problems with England’s academies won’t stop
Warwick Mansell offers a guide to a dangerous and little-understood school reforms
Then & Now
A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming; technology; and women.
The London students who refuse to pay rent
Students have joined a rent strike to protest against prices they say are out of reach for poorer students. Amy Hall reports.
Is teaching English in poor countries a misguided form of philanthropy?
Such ‘aid’ will only ever lift a few out of poverty, argues Dan Falvey.
PHOTO ESSAY: literacy is a family affair
Glitter Moreño shares images of a rural project in the Philippines, where parents are learning essential skills alongside their children.
Benjamin Zephaniah: ‘It is my duty to help and inspire’
Mischa Wilmers talks to the poet turned professor about mentoring, Mandela and making a difference.
Argument: Are exams bad for children?
Teachers Stephanie Schneider and Matt Christison go head-to-head.
Are religious schools bad for society?
Humanist Andrew Copson and feminist Catholic theologian Tina Beattie go head-to-head - read their arguments and join the debate.
