Letters: Schools’ role in HIV education

The article on young people living with HIV in the UK (Survivors’ stories: secret lives of kids who grew up with HIV, 12 March) is a timely reminder of both the ground-breaking medical advances over the past 15 years as well as the specific challenges faced by young people growing up with HIV. HIV-related stigma [...]

Faith schools: the self-sustaining Darwinian world of modern education | Andrew Brown

Are faith schools’ mostly middle-class intakes down to an exclusion policy or a reflection of Christianity’s values? No one can dispute that the great majority of Christian schools in England have a predominantly middle-class intake. The question is whether this represents a policy of social exclusion on the part of the Roman Catholic and Anglican [...]

Who would be your dream education secretary?

Teachers and parents tell us who they would like to see in charge of education – and why Geoff Barton, headteacher, King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds What we really need is an education secretary who recognises that successful schools are all about developing talent. Simon Cowell certainly knows that, but I don’t think [...]

Michael Gove under pressure over anti-gay sex education

Education secretary says Equality Act does not extend to school curriculum – allowing faith schools to use homophobic material Michael Gove, the education secretary, is at the centre of an escalating row over how faith schools discuss homosexuality in sex education classes. The TUC has accused Gove of failing in his legal duties by insisting [...]

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