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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Andy Haldane
      AI could consign educational traumas to history

      Thanks to technology, tailoring education to the learner is within our grasp

      A female teacher from the 1930s writes on a blackboard in front of a class of pupils
    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      UK Inequality
      Shift in government spending has cut UK inequality, study finds

      IFS says increase in health provision, wider access to education and introduction of university fees is behind change

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    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      First lesson: learning the value of maths

      Britain is belatedly waking up to the central role of numeracy in modern life

      Children sit at desks in a classroom with calculators in hand
    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
      Why HR needs to go back to basics

      Overwhelmed human resources teams should remember what employees really value at work

      Staff sat on the floor of their workplace meditating
    • Monday, 19 September, 2022
      Special Report
      Investing in Education

      Looking at how the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the learning crisis around the world and exploring innovative ideas and experiments to improve the quality of education for children in low and middle-income countries

      Kirma reads with her Uncle Rikesh Chauhan
    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Ashish Dhawan
      Education policy cannot be business-as-usual after Covid

      If developing countries prioritise improving outcomes, the demographic dividend will last decades

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    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Special ReportAfrican Development
      Nigeria and Ghana’s health systems stand in contrast

      Africa’s largest economy has some of the worst outcomes in the world

      African nurses inspecting medical supplies sent by drone
    • Monday, 22 August, 2022
      Sam Freedman
      The truth is that schools do little to reduce inequality

      Education cannot compensate for the failure to implement redistributive social policies

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    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
      Anna Vignoles
      Shrinking UK universities to boost vocational skills is short-sighted

      Ministers must recognise the value of our interconnected system of post-18 courses and research

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    • Monday, 28 March, 2022
      ExplainerUK schools
      Will the education white paper raise pupil attainment in England?

      The government is promising a ‘world class education’, but offering limited additional resources

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    • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
      Special ReportInvesting in Education
      Pupils’ parallel pandemics in India and Tanzania

      Photo essay: The FT followed the very different experiences of Kirma in India and Joshua in Tanzania

    • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
      Lant Pritchett
      Now for the ‘hard part’ of achieving quality education for all

      Getting more of the world’s children in school is the first step but how do we make it count?

    • Monday, 11 October, 2021
      Uhuru Kenyatta
      Covid-19 can entrench educational inequality — or spur change

      The crisis threatens lasting harm but also creates opportunities, says Kenya’s president

      President Uhuru Kenyatta speaking at the Global Education Summit in London in July
    • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
      Juliet Wajega
      Teachers must be at the heart of post-Covid education recovery

      Policymakers too often fail to grasp frontline needs in low-income countries

    • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
      Nicholas Barr
      Young people are paying for social care with little in return

      Complementary policies are needed to ensure intergenerational fairness now, not in the distant future

    • Monday, 16 August, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Rules for bringing AI into the classroom

      Pandemic has accelerated the adoption of machine learning as a tool for education

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    • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The world needs help in going back to school

      Absence from classrooms has caused severe damage in poorer countries

      Schoolchildren attend class in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to some estimates, 24m school-aged children in lower and middle-income countries may never return to the classroom
    • Monday, 26 July, 2021
      Social affairs
      Let’s solve the learning crisis together

      Researchers in low-income countries want more focus on basic literacy and numeracy

    • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
      Amy Kazmin
      BJP turns to coercion to limit India’s population growth

      Experts say Uttar Pradesh plan to cut benefits to those with more than two children will hurt the country’s poorest

      A family stands next to a bus
    • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
      Special ReportDelivering for the World’s Children
      Japan follows UK’s lead in securing child nutrition against Covid

      December summit in Tokyo aims to tackle the sharp rise in childhood malnutrition caused by the pandemic

      A young mother feeds her baby at a cookery demonstration in Zambia
    • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
      Special ReportDelivering for the World’s Children
      Students need radical solutions to catch up post-Covid

      Global gains in education are at risk as Covid-19 shuts 1.6bn learners out of school

      A teacher at the village primary school of Trom, in Cambodia, during the pandemic
    • Thursday, 29 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A new deal for the young: funding higher education fairly

      Cost of expanding university and vocational courses needs to be shared

    • Sunday, 4 April, 2021
      Akinwumi Adesina
      Race for Covid vaccines in Africa is hiding the key role of nutrition

      Access to adequate food for all must be a priority in the continent’s fight against the pandemic

    • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      How to make up for lost school time

      Months of missed classroom lessons will have long-term consequences

    • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
      David Malpass
      World Bank: four steps to equitable education

      Debt relief is needed now to stop the pandemic denying more children a basic education, with girls most at risk

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