Education
Leaders
The Starmer government looks a poor guardian of England’s improving schools
It is fiddling with what works and not yet dealing with what doesn’t
Britain
Labour lacks good ideas for improving Britain’s schools
Making private ones a bit more expensive is not an inspiring start
Science & technology
Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
We analyse two centuries of scholarly work
Leaders
Can you read as well as a ten-year-old?
Adults in rich countries are less literate than they were a decade ago. That requires attention
United States
Donald Trump threatened to smackdown the education department
But his pick for education secretary is relatively tame
Asia
Is India’s education system the root of its problems?
A recent comparison with China suggests that may be so
Leaders
Too many master’s courses are expensive and flaky
Governments should help postgraduates get a better deal
International
Is your master’s degree useless?
New data show a shockingly high proportion of courses are a waste of money
Britain
Higher fees won’t help Britain’s beleaguered universities much
A tax rise could gobble up much of the extra cash
United States
Why Republicans have failed to scrap the Department of Education
And why they keep promising to do so
United States
Polarisation by education is remaking American politics
The battle for Pennsylvania is a test case for new coalitions of Democrats and Republicans
Asia
Private tutoring is booming across poorer parts of Asia
Governments are struggling to keep up with an educational arms race
Leaders
Britain should let university tuition fees rise
Domestic students have been paying less in real terms every year
Britain
The broken business model of British universities
Frozen fees + fewer foreigners = big trouble
Britain
English kids are back in school. What about the teachers?
The struggle to recruit and retain teaching staff