Education

How the Alsama Project grew from a small Lebanese flat to educate hundreds of teen refugees
Refugees

How the Alsama Project grew from a small Lebanese flat to educate hundreds of teen refugees

Meike Ziervogel’s new novel Shams is inspired by the Alsama Project, which gives refugees and displaced teenagers the tools to change their lives

Almost Home: Unique exhibition showcases the ‘pain and hope’ of women in prison
Art

Almost Home: Unique exhibition showcases the ‘pain and hope’ of women in prison

Almost Home has been co-curated by women in HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Low Newton

Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: ‘It’s like battery farming’
Art

Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: ‘It’s like battery farming’

The artist is calling for a reset in arts education and the way the internet is used with his new book

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Learning and employment
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Learning and employment

Children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on how getting kids to read can help fight misinformation
Reading

Children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on how getting kids to read can help fight misinformation

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We can’t expect Ed Sheeran, Marcus Rashford and Jamie Oliver to keep on fixing Britain
Paul McNamee

We can’t expect Ed Sheeran, Marcus Rashford and Jamie Oliver to keep on fixing Britain

These 11 pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back in Britain
Rewilding

These 11 pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back in Britain

From fake birds to Andrew Tate: How one group is tackling conspiracy theories in schools
Conspiracy theories

From fake birds to Andrew Tate: How one group is tackling conspiracy theories in schools

‘I’ve never been able to afford more than one skirt’: Labour’s school uniform plan sparks fierce debate
School uniform

‘I’ve never been able to afford more than one skirt’: Labour’s school uniform plan sparks fierce debate

Why Labour’s VAT hike on private school fees could mean UK music suffers
Education

Why Labour’s VAT hike on private school fees could mean UK music suffers

This year has offered children glimmers of hope – but 2025 must see tangible change
Lynn Perry

This year has offered children glimmers of hope – but 2025 must see tangible change

I should have spent school preparing for the future. Instead I spent it fighting to be included
Olive Watt

I should have spent school preparing for the future. Instead I spent it fighting to be included

Homeless woman reunites with couple who ‘changed her life’ when they gave her a bed for the night
Homelessness

Homeless woman reunites with couple who ‘changed her life’ when they gave her a bed for the night

Millions of British adults lack basic literacy skills – and it’s becoming an uncomfortable crisis
Robert Glick

Millions of British adults lack basic literacy skills – and it’s becoming an uncomfortable crisis

TikTok star and teacher Shabaz Ali: ‘Kids should not be going without food in this country’
Child poverty

TikTok star and teacher Shabaz Ali: ‘Kids should not be going without food in this country’

From the NHS to ‘spreading opportunity’: Here’s what should be in Keir Starmer’s ‘plan for change’
Plan for change

From the NHS to ‘spreading opportunity’: Here’s what should be in Keir Starmer’s ‘plan for change’

Teacher of the Year winner Oli McVeigh: ‘Boys are bottling up and repressing lots of different ideas’
Education

Teacher of the Year winner Oli McVeigh: ‘Boys are bottling up and repressing lots of different ideas’

We must change our relationship with masculinity to stop vulnerable men turning into Andrew Tate
Matteo Bergamini

We must change our relationship with masculinity to stop vulnerable men turning into Andrew Tate

Special needs children forced out of school by ‘crumbling’ system, figures show
Education

Special needs children forced out of school by ‘crumbling’ system, figures show

‘We’re stepping in to help kids eat’: Schools forced to dip into their own budgets to feed pupils
Child poverty

‘We’re stepping in to help kids eat’: Schools forced to dip into their own budgets to feed pupils

Saddling poorer students with a lifelong debt makes absolutely no sense
Paul McNamee

Saddling poorer students with a lifelong debt makes absolutely no sense

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Prisoners are teaching each other to read. Here’s how it’s changing life behind bars amid a crisis
Prisons

Prisoners are teaching each other to read. Here’s how it’s changing life behind bars amid a crisis

Children in poverty most likely to be excluded from school, study finds: ‘A crisis of lost learning’
Education

Children in poverty most likely to be excluded from school, study finds: ‘A crisis of lost learning’

Rise in young people not in work or education could fill Man Utd’s Old Trafford stadium
Jamie Masraff

Rise in young people not in work or education could fill Man Utd’s Old Trafford stadium

‘My heart burns’: Three years after fall of Kabul, Afghan women share stories of escape and hope
Afghanistan

‘My heart burns’: Three years after fall of Kabul, Afghan women share stories of escape and hope