Tony Blair is right: more people should go on to higher education
Rather than trying to limit the number who enter university, we should focus on making it more effective.
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Mary Colwell: the woman behind the UK’s new nature GCSE
In a conservation landscape riven by conflict and opposing interests, the education campaigner insists the new qualification must be “for…
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Will the SNP ever address the Scottish schools crisis?
Failing to educate children effectively is about as grievous a state deficiency as can be imagined.
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There’s a problem with university culture – but it isn’t the students
Do the grown-ups decrying today’s students really believe they never did anything when they were young that would have caused…
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Exclusive: Majority of poorer pupils could be barred from university under loan rules
Entry requirements for student finance could block up to 55 per cent of children from disadvantaged backgrounds, the New Statesman…
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Reforms should hit exploitative universities instead of poor students
Pupils who flunk their GCSEs are too often funnelled on to expensive degrees that will be of no benefit to…
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Why women should pay half for university (and economists should pay double)
What universities don’t tell prospective students is that their courses differ wildly in value depending on what you study –…
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How the poorest school pupils have lost the most funding
The most disadvantaged primary schools lost money while those in prosperous areas gained it.
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