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Richard Adams

Richard Adams is the Guardian's education editor

April 2025

  • A group of primary school students in red uniforms sitting in class, shot from the back

    A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students

  • Three public school boys wearing tails, with their backs toward the camera

    Wealthiest English private schools spend below 6% on means-tested bursaries, research finds

  • Nigel Farage delivers a speech in Durham on Tuesday

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reform a ‘racist and far-right’ party, says teaching union after Farage attack – as it happened

  • Daniel Kebede.

    Reform UK a ‘far-right and racist party’, says largest teaching union

  • Stress taking ‘immense toll’ on teachers in England as union debates industrial action

  • Ministers raise concern over NASUWT move for ‘combative’ ex-FBU chief

  • More than 90% of schools in England ban mobile phone use, survey shows

  • Girls in England feel less safe at school than they did pre-Covid, survey finds

  • We need more male teachers so British boys have role models, says minister

  • VAT on private school fees is discriminatory, high court told

March 2025

  • Bridget Phillipson and the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, Peter Kyle, attend a demonstration of AI tools at an event in London

    Bridget Phillipson eyes AI’s potential to free up teachers’ time

  • Keir Starmer on a visit to a fabric manufacturer in Holmfirth, northern England.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer ‘disappointed’ Sentencing Council won’t change guidelines that have prompted fears of two tier justice – as it happened

  • A student in a mechanic's environment reaching for a wrench.

    T-level qualifications still less popular and more expensive than BTecs, watchdog finds

  • Sasha Roseneil

    University of Sussex taking legal action over £585,000 free speech fine

  • Scottish voters split over free tuition as university financial crisis deepens

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tories and Reform UK must agree pact before next election if Labour could win, shadow minister says – as it happened

  • Unauthorised school absence widening ‘disadvantage gap’ in England

  • Primary Sats ‘working well’ but Gove’s Ebacc needs scrutiny, review chief says

  • Bridget Phillipson: parents must ‘think differently’ on Send support for children

  • Social media platforms must be ‘brought to heel’, says UK schools leader

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