The coalition government’s generational failure
Degrees cost four times what they did before 2012, when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats increased the amount universities could…
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What are private schools really selling?
They no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. Can elite education survive?
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On the responsibility of intellectuals
As the conscience of society, writer-thinkers should not be swayed by prevailing political opinion in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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The crisis of Scotland’s ghost children
Freedom of information requests reveal how school attendance has plummeted since lockdown.
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Who would be a student in 2023?
Undergraduates face inadequate maintenance loans, poor housing and a soaring cost of living – I feel dreadful for them.
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Can our sluggish education system survive in a fast-changing world?
The traditional university course is poorly suited for our future.
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The case for student salaries
Also this week: the unfairness of A-levels and ministers who say results don’t matter.
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Don’t blame teachers for university drop-out rates
The problem of young people struggling in higher education cannot be solved in the classroom alone.
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How the Digital Futures Academy is equipping students for the future
Manchester United Foundation and DXC Technology will upskill young people for the jobs of tomorrow.
How to stoke a culture war within the Oxford student union
A bureaucratic change has been blown up into a woke battle between women and trans people.
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Banning foreign students would backfire on levelling up
Only allowing them into elite universities relegates domestic students to lower-tier universities – which end up deprived of funding.
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