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Yes, we are all in this together
Since it was first published, The Spirit Level has won admirers including Ed Miliband and David Cameron, but also provoked sharp attacks. The book’s authors explain why its ideas about social equality still have weight.
The kids talk
Pupils from schools in Manchester discuss the advantages and disadvantages of free schools.
The burden of freedom
School leaders do not necessarily revel in the prospect of additional power and responsibility that the government is offering.
New lucrative autonomy
The coalition’s announcement of a new wave of schools and academies will open up a large market in management services that can be sold into schools.
Multinationals in control
Companies now running schools in the UK come from a variety of charitable and profit-making sectors.
Universities challenged
Society needs to have a civilised conversation with itself about its values. But spending cuts threatening the humanities put that in danger.
This is unfair to the poorest teenagers in our country
Axing the Education Maintenance Allowance will prevent thousands of young people from deprived backgrounds from going to university.
The age of scientific discovery is over
The NS Interview: Nancy Rothwell, vice-chancellor, Manchester University
Don’t let social class divide our campuses
Maths is the language of the universe
Leader: A market in higher education would be calamitous
The reality of university rankings
Selling off the schools system
Facebook’s $1.6bn woman
A witch-hunt?
Osborne's woes
Marr's monarchism
The interview
On Syria
The interview
GOP race so far
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