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This Week In PMQs: Education and U.S. Intelligence

March 28, 2025 By Phineas Horan

Just before the Spring Statement, the government addressed questions on whether mobile phones should be banned schools. The House of Commons also debated intelligence with the United States following a security breach involving a leaked group chat from the White House.

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This Week in PMQs: Ukraine-US Relations, Defence and Breakfast Clubs

March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 By Phineas Horan

The Prime Minister’s Questions are normally a raucous event and good spectator sport, however the mood in the house this week was solemn and unsmiling in its discussion Trump and Ukraine.

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Opinion: The UK’s Classist Education Pipeline 

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025 By Millie Rowsell

In September 2020, reports emerged of a group of university students planning a competition to have sex with the “poorest girl on campus”.

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Opinion: Is the English Curriculum to Blame for the Decline in Reading Enjoyment?

February 2, 2025February 2, 2025 By Erin Morgan

As part of my PGCE interview in November, I was asked to bring a fictional text that I felt should be taught to

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This Week in PMQs: Education, Education, Concrete.

January 24, 2025February 7, 2025 By Phineas Horan

The Labour government has introduced significant plans for reform in education and healthcare, sparking heated debates across Parliament in this week’s PMQs.

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Opinion: Government’s Plan for Reforming Sex Education: Why we Should be Worried for the Future Generation.

December 4, 2024December 4, 2024 By Lily Groves

Recent government guidance has banned schools in England from teaching sex education to children under nine years old. According to the Education Hub,

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Opinion: From Debate to Dialogue – Nurturing Respect in Our Schools 

November 18, 2024November 17, 2024 By Oliver Keay

It is every society’s responsibility to produce a next generation that we can be collectively proud of, yet it seems that every generation

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Labour’s Promise to Pupils with SEND: Repairing Education After Years of Conservative Neglect

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024 By Erin Morgan

After 14 years of neglect by the Conservative government, the education sector has struggled to keep up with the challenges that schools are

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Afghanistan – The Humanitarian Crisis we choose to ignore

March 27, 2022March 27, 2022 By Ben Evans

With the escalation of the war in Ukraine, the international community’s attention has been diverted away from another humanitarian crisis that threatens the

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Opinion: Elitism has returned to destroy universities

March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 By Eloise Norris

At fifteen years old, on the night of my first GCSE examination, I didn’t sleep. Instead of staying well-nourished, well-rested and taking a

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