Tag: education

1 November 2017

A Green Party politician has accused a school of breaching a child's human rights for enforcing a controversial policy. And ...

Angela Rayner slams the government for spending millions on free schools ‘behind closed doors’

31 October 2017

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has slammed the Department for Education for 'unaccountability' after it spent millions on free schools ...

The government just said it’s investing millions more in schools, but it’s actually a cleverly disguised cut

25 October 2017

On Tuesday 24 October, the government announced it was "doubling" some funding for primary school pupils in England. It also ...

If you’re wondering why our schools are in crisis, here’s Justine Greening’s new £800-a-day education chief

24 October 2017

On 23 October, the government announced a new appointment to the board of the Department for Education (DfE). But far ...

If you’re a parent of a young child, the Tories have probably just screwed you over

31 August 2017

A senior Labour MP has slammed the Tories for potentially creating a "lost generation" of children, days before one of ...

CanaryPod 18 August 2017 – The moral test of a government

by Nancy Mendoza

19 June 2022

This week, The Canary’s editor-in-chief Kerry-Anne Mendoza talks with Canaries Bex Sumner, Steve Topple and James Wright about a few ...

This is the sickening gift the Tories gave to students for A-level results day

by Fréa Lockley

18 August 2017

Thousands of young people received their A-level results on 17 August 2017, but they face an increasingly difficult financial future. ...

The mainstream media has buried the latest evidence about the Tories’ shameful record in power [IMAGES]

On Wednesday 16 August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest employment figures. And while much of the ...

The Tories are now tearing themselves apart as a senior MP turns on a government policy she helped to launch

A senior Conservative MP has reportedly "demanded answers" into a failing flagship government policy. One which she launched in 2015. ...

A Tory MP accused Jeremy Corbyn of lying. Funnily enough, here’s the proof he wasn’t [TWEETS]

A Conservative MP wrote to Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of 'wrongly claiming' about cuts in her area. But there was ...

A catastrophe at a primary school sums up the mess our education system is in

A primary school in Bristol stands as a damning testament to the mess England's education system is in. Because, in ...

Our desperate media now think they’ve found the one thing that will sink Jeremy Corbyn [IMAGE]

A top Tory accuses Labour of lying. But guess what? They got it wrong.

Education Secretary Justine Greening accused Labour of lying over its election promises on tuition fees. The problem for Greening is ...

It took Angela Rayner less than a minute to nail the Tories’ latest pack of lies [VIDEO]

Angela Rayner has dismissed the government's latest spending pledges as not addressing the "crisis" facing schools. And Labour's Shadow Education ...

The Education Secretary is giving an extra £1.3bn to schools, by stealing it from their own budgets

On Monday 17 July, Education Secretary Justine Greening announced an "additional" £1.3bn for front-line school spending. But far from being ...

If you’re doing the school run, Theresa May’s promise of 30 hours free childcare for you has just fallen apart [IMAGES]

In March 2017, the government announced the details of its policy of 30 hours free childcare for three and four-year-olds. ...

Children as young as 10 are being judged by a secret system that teachers are not allowed to see

10- and 11-year-old children are being punished in their Sats exams for the most ridiculous reasons. And to make things ...

Watch Angela Rayner sum up Theresa May’s new government with a brilliant one-liner [VIDEO]