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France’s teens versus the riot police – podcast

Schools have been closed and ransacked. Some have simply been burned down. The pupils are fed up with the status quo. And they're furious about a school system that they say is failing them. It began with outrage over…

Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Now a major digital archive of his previously unpublished papers, notebooks, recordings and videos has been launched. When the Jamaica-born sociologist and seminal figure in postwar Black British history died in 2014…

Senior academics set out key questions Cambridge must answer over Jason Arday’s death

In a letter to Chris Smith, Cambridge's chancellor, the academics said "it is not yet clear" how the proposed review will answer difficult questions about the university's involvement in the events leading up to Arday's…

How dilapidated are French schools and how bad is inequality in the education system?

School students say the education system is riven with inequality, that many buildings are in disrepair, class sizes are too big, and there are not enough teachers or funding. The French prime minister has promised to…

Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants feature

The tool - allowing users to take and share an instant image with close friends, that disappears once viewed - was launched on Meta's photo-sharing app in May as "a new way to share photos in the moment". But the…

Burnham urged to ‘end cycle of harm’ after scale of child-on-child sexual abuse revealed

The groups urged Labour to redouble efforts to deliver on its manifesto promise to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) and "end this cycle of harm once and for all". Guardian analysis of police data for 2021-25…

Potty training scheme to roll out to 20 more areas

York was the subject of the city-wide pilot, which also put on workshops for parents and offered special training for early years staff. Twenty local authorities across England are now signed up to launch similar schemes…

‘I didn’t know what to do’: collapse of providers of high-end digs leaves students in shock

The fourth-year game design student at Abertay University was at home with her family thousands of miles away in Thailand when she discovered the owner of her Scottish studio flat had abruptly gone bust. "I was like, my…

Children’s books with Black main characters down 8% in a year, study shows

Black children make up about 8.5% of that age bracket in England and Wales. Representation of south Asian main characters fell by 14.3 percentage points to 1.4%, despite children of south Asian heritage making up about…

Thousands of child-on-child sexual offences reported at schools in England and Wales

Close to five sexual crimes against children aged 12 and younger were recorded on average by police every day in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales, according to Guardian analysis of police data for…