Notes on a crisis: With Covid and the climate crisis, we are failing the next generation
We are backing away from the job of resourcing young people to respond with intelligence, imagination and honesty.
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Class of 2020: Inside the chaos of a lost freshers’ week
From empty halls of residence to campus outbreaks, starting university in 2020 is a very different experience.
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Anthony Seldon’s Diary: Farewell to Buckingham, Yeats for trolls, and serving our students
The futility of our obsession with exams as the only way of validating a student has been exposed.
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Student, interrupted: How will Covid-19 transform higher education?
The pandemic represents a challenge and an opportunity for UK universities to overhaul their offering to students.
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Schools are set to reopen but how safe are they from Covid-19?
Without a significantly improved test and trace programme, reopening schools could lead to a second wave in December.
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Is the government dodging the blame for the exam results fiasco?
A second senior official has resigned over the debacle – but the Education Secretary remains in place.
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Why rebranding higher education as “job training” is an offence to humanism
Too many governments seem determined to diminish the type of education that nurtures free and independent thinking.
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“The teachers laughed at me”: How Miles King defied expectations to make it to Oxford
Despite his talent, the black A-level student was mocked when he said he wanted to attend a Russell Group university.
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