The intolerant age
How creeping censorship captured Britain’s institutions.
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Mezna Qato: “Without our libraries and universities, how will we tell the story of Gaza?”
The only way to lose Gaza is to stop listening to the Palestinians of Gaza.
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Student power
Published in the wake of the 1968 uprising at Columbia, Immanuel Wallerstein’s University in Turmoil holds critical lessons for the…
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On the Oxbridge barricade
Pro-Palestinian protesters at British universities are obscuring their own message.
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How the student Gaza protests went global
Pro-Palestine protests are proliferating across Western universities – but only the US has responded with military-grade police violence.
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Protest nation
Pro-Palestine activists at Columbia show an America unable to come to terms with its own helplessness.
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Britain is divided by educational status
The crisis at Goldsmiths is symbolic of what is going wrong in our universities.
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Inside Columbia’s campus wars
Divisions over Israel-Palestine have morphed into a fight for free speech and thrown the Ivy League university into crisis.
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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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Academics can no longer speak freely
Solving this crisis in higher education should transcend the division between the right and the left.
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Seema Malhotra: The Tories are short-changing young people
The shadow skills minister on Labour's jobs agenda, reforming apprenticeships, and valuing creative subjects.
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The SNP has been mugged by reality on tuition fees
The Scottish education minister Jenny Gilruth has opened the door to change on university funding.
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The culture war claims Claudine Gay
How the Ivy League hearings on anti-Semitism reveal the wounded American elite.
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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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Education’s inequality curse
Rishi Sunak has protected the status quo in schools and universities, as the gaps of privilege and geography grow ever…
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Universities are making us stupid
A managerial war is remaking and destroying our once-noble centres of higher education.
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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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What affirmative action advocates ignore
Progressives are happy to uphold one form of discrimination for another – and it’s Asian Americans that lose out.
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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.
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