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Sean Coughlan

Sean is an award-winning education correspondent for the BBC News website. As well as covering news about schools and universities in the UK, he is editor of the BBC's international education online series, The Knowledge Economy, which looks at the impact of education from a global perspective and how it is shaping the economies of the future. He is author of several books, including a cultural history of sleep.

  • Will students have to study from home after Christmas?

    Published
    16 October
    Attribution
    Family & Education
    students

  • Scotland makes first move in reducing exams. Who is next?

    Published
    7 October
    Attribution
    Family & Education
    Exam results

  • Why did the A-level algorithm say no?

    Published
    14 August
    Attribution
    Family & Education
    A-level protest

  • What's next in the arguments over exam results?

    Published
    13 August
    Attribution
    Family & Education
    Exam results

  • 'Final year like no other' PM tells school leavers

    Published
    10 July
    Attribution
    Family & Education
    Boris Johnson

  • School catch up: No such thing as a free launch

    Published
    19 June
    Attribution
    Family & Education
    Classroom

  • How did going back to school lose the plot?

    Published
    11 June
    Attribution
    Family & Education
    Classroom

  • How do schools double classes with no extra rooms?

    Published
    20 May
    Attribution
    Family & Education
    Children of key worker's at a school in Altrincham

  • Justin Welby gives biggest online school assembly

    Published
    30 April
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Last survivor of transatlantic slave trade discovered

    Published
    25 March
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Reaching 130 million girls with no access to school

    Published
    8 March
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Bad local transport linked to failing schools

    Published
    4 March
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Universities need to lose 'sense of entitlement'

    Published
    28 February
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Would student vote go missing in December election?

    Published
    29 October 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Could Labour really ban private schools?

    Published
    23 September 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Labour would replace 'unfit for purpose' Ofsted

    Published
    21 September 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • £4bn schools funding boost to be confirmed

    Published
    27 August 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Schools set for long-awaited cash injection

    Published
    24 August 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • If GCSEs get harder, how can results go up?

    Published
    22 August 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Tuition fees cut expected as May's legacy

    Published
    16 May 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Middle classes losing out to ultra-rich

    Published
    10 April 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • £7,500 tuition fees plan faces Brexit delay

    Published
    1 March 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Thousand fewer UK students at Oxbridge

    Published
    26 February 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education

  • Greening wanted to scrap tuition fees

    Published
    23 January 2019
    Attribution
    Family & Education