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Students at the best private schools have ten times more green space than state students

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Children at Britain’s top 250 private schools have more than ten times as much outdoor space as those attending state schools, an exclusive Guardian analysis can reveal. A schoolboy paying Eton has access to 140 times more green space than the average student at an English state school, the analysis shows. Experts condemned the ‘staggering’ … Read more

arts in public schools should be a priority for the next administration, theater leaders say

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Tackling the erosion and devaluation of the arts in state schools must be a priority for the next government, leading theater figures in England have insisted. Sir Nicholas Hytner, who ran the National Theater in London for 12 years, said state schools “have been robbed” and that restoring arts education was an urgent issue to … Read more