‘I saw being autistic as an employment opportunity, not a weakness’ | Saba Salmon

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Young autistic people want to be accepted by employers for who they are, says award-winning campaigner Jonathan Andrews Jonathan Andrews was once advised to hide his autism from prospective employers. Instead, he is making his name by doing just the opposite. “I saw it [being autistic] as an opportunity, not a weakness,” says Andrews, 22, […]

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The reality of budget cuts in schools – survey

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Cash-strapped schools are facing redundancies, reduced subject choices and even running out of paper Schools are making teachers redundant, dropping subjects from the curriculum, and even asking pupils to buy their own books, as headteachers struggle to cope with funding cuts. More than 80% of teachers surveyed by the Guardian Teacher Network said their school

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Nick Gibb ‘comfortable’ with schools’ approach to cost cutting

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The schools minister Nick Gibb has said he is “comfortable” with the way schools are dealing with rising cost pressures. It comes despite headteachers recently revealing how they are having to cut back on textbooks, cleaning and maintenance to balance the books, on top of making teaching and support staff redundant. The Institute for Fiscal

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Nursery schools: ‘What society gives children less chance than their parents?’

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Few doubt the value of nursery schools, yet many could close as early as July thanks to government plans for free childcare Kate Daenke is sitting in the headteacher’s room at Homerton early years centre in Cambridge, recalling her childhood years at the nursery school. She remembers her headteacher and many hours spent playing in

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‘We’re not hippies, we’re punks.’ School that has projects, not subjects, on the timetable

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Finland’s answer to a slip in standards is to put more ‘joy’ into the curriculum. We visit a school in Yorkshire that aims to show the UK could do the same ‘New core curriculum for basic education emphasises the joy of learning,” reads a recent headline on a government education website. This new, more joyful

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Dear Justine Greening, whatever happened to ‘eradicating illiteracy’? | Michael Rosen

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In 2011 the schools minister trumpeted the benefits of phonics teaching. But a quarter of seven-year-olds’ literacy skills still haven’t made the cut Back in 2005, the BBC reported David Cameron (you’ll remember him), then shadow education secretary, saying: “The biggest problem facing education today is the fact that one in five 11-year-olds leaves primary

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