How Starmer will rethink education
The Labour leader lays out the party’s final mission.
By
Education
Latest in
Education
Labour forgets that not everyone goes to university
The party’s focus on tuition fees neglects half of young people – and its past success with apprenticeships.
By
The long-term impact of school closures on children is lockdown’s unspoken horror
Teachers reported children starting school while still in nappies and lacking basic language skills.
By
The attack on the humanities is snobbery dressed as realism
Our world-leading universities are in crisis, yet debate centres on “entitled” students who have the audacity to want to study…
By
Keir Starmer’s tuition fees U-turn ignores the real problem with the system
There’s no justification for a lifelong stealth tax on those graduates who weren’t old or wealthy enough to escape it.
By
Rachel de Souza: “Big Tech knows it harms children – it should get serious”
The children’s commissioner on social media, porn and the mental health crisis in schools.
By
Sunak’s misuse of statistics exposes the real “anti-maths mindset”
The last two years have seen high levels of governmental number-fudging.
By
Letter of the week: In defence of higher education
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
By