Written by students, for students
A standing home for student writing on education — from classrooms across this nation and from across the borders. If you are a student with something to say about how we learn, this page is waiting for it.
Open call
We are reading submissions from students across the nation and across the borders. Write about what you actually see — the fees, the language of instruction, the walk to school, the teacher who changed your mind, the policy that looks different from a classroom than it does from an office.
You do not need to be published before. You do not need permission from your school. You need a topic about education and something honest to say about it.
Every submission is read. We reply to the ones we can publish, and we will tell you what we changed before it goes live. Your contact details are never published and never shared.
Current issue
6 pieces · every one under 1000 words
A certificate without skills and values is empty. An Ordinary Level student at Mwanza High sets out what school should teach, and what it still refuses to.
Education does not only take place in classrooms. An Advanced Level student at Chemhondoro High argues that what a country invests in its learners, it invests in its own future.
The distance between home and the classroom is not measured in kilometres alone. It is measured in risk, in fatigue, and in the quiet arithmetic parents perform when money runs short.
Banning the device is the easy policy. Teaching a generation to govern its own attention is the harder one — and it is the only one that will still matter after they leave school.
Drought does not appear anywhere in the school syllabus, yet it may be the single most reliable predictor of whether a rural child sits the examination at the end of it.
A six-year-old who is taught to read in a language she does not yet speak is being asked to do two difficult things at once, and is usually judged on only one of them.
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The Students' Guardian is free to read and free to write for, and it intends to stay that way. What it costs is real: editing, data for students who have none, printing for schools with no connectivity, and the slow work of getting young writers into print properly. If this page has ever taught you something, fund the next piece.
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