Life & Society: Education

The battlefield of ideas

In earlier decades, the atmosphere in the universities was optimistic, heady even, stimulated by close ties with Westminster and Whitehall. Now that close relationship seems to have gone. What went wrong, and who is to blame?

“I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”

The eminent thinker Slavoj Žižek tells Jonathan Derbyshire why he rejects mainstream political theory, why he supports Barack Obama, and why we need Marx more than ever

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Schools, fools and Rod Stewart

My modest proposal to undermine public schools

Back to school on the Strip

World: Gaza

Campaign spotlight: Campus crisis

Jane Holgate, University College Union (UCU) branch secretary at London Metropolitan University

Textbook injustice in Gaza

Schoolchildren are stuck for basics as Israel blocks supplies

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A mother’s choice

Observations on education

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Like scaling Everest

Pianism

Time for an honest appraisal

The former Labour MP and minister responds to a New Statesman essay by Neal Lawson and John Harris in which they called for a politics bigger and broader than Labour

Pile up the politicians

...on profligate MPs, policing and a predictable Premiership

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