Letter of the week: Wealth and learning
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A state in disrepair
Crumbling schools exemplify an age of private affluence and public squalor.
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Have the Conservatives forgotten education?
GCSE and A Level results are out, and the proportion of top grades have dipped since the pandemic years. It’s…
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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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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Why the teacher strikes might not be over
The unions have accepted a pay deal, but industrial action could return if the problems in the sector don’t improve.
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Partner content
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.
Why MPs are fleeing Westminster
Also this week: Rage at Wimbledon and Tory snobbery over “Mickey Mouse” degrees.
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David Blunkett: “Labour needs to be radical but not scary”
The former home secretary on how Keir Starmer can convince voters and what Rachel Reeves is getting right.
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“Take back control” has become “we can’t control”
The implication of Labour’s focus on “resilience” is that modern subjects are weak, inflexible and unable to cope.
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What’s the point of Labour when there’s less money to spend?
Keir Starmer needs a strategy for an era of economic scarcity.
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Why “chippy” Bridget Phillipson was right about private schools
Independent research shows the shadow education secretary’s plan to remove private schools’ tax exemption will help the sector.
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Scotland is falling behind in the digital race
Laptops and tablets provided by the SNP in the country’s poorer areas have simply disappeared.
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Meet the teenagers who crashed Keir Starmer’s speech
“They put us on the stage and were like, ‘Clap at the appropriate time!’ ”
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How Starmer will rethink education
The Labour leader lays out the party’s final mission.
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Can Labour inspire hope?
The sense of fatalism across the country means that the party’s education plan is its most important initiative.
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Labour anger grows over Wes Streeting’s media blitz
Party sources complain that the shadow health secretary was awarded 18 spots in the party’s publicity schedule to promote his…
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How to solve a problem like free speech? Even the tsar will struggle
University students need to be exposed to different views – but even the government doesn’t seem to know where to…
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Why Labour’s student loan reform pledge is underwhelming
The announcement will not inspire graduates, nor will it fix the broken higher education system.
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Why tuition fees are the progressive option
Students paying for their own tuition is fairer for everyone. Karl Marx knew that.
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