Seema Malhotra: The Tories are short-changing young people
The shadow skills minister on Labour's jobs agenda, reforming apprenticeships, and valuing creative subjects.
ByThe shadow skills minister on Labour's jobs agenda, reforming apprenticeships, and valuing creative subjects.
ByAlso this week: the unfairness of A-levels and ministers who say results don’t matter.
ByRishi Sunak has protected the status quo in schools and universities, as the gaps of privilege and geography grow ever…
ByA managerial war is remaking and destroying our once-noble centres of higher education.
ByThe problem of young people struggling in higher education cannot be solved in the classroom alone.
ByThe party’s focus on tuition fees neglects half of young people – and its past success with apprenticeships.
ByHigher education is not an adequate means to achieve a more just society.
ByOur world-leading universities are in crisis, yet debate centres on “entitled” students who have the audacity to want to study…
ByThe policy doesn’t reflect voters’ priorities and there aren’t enough teachers to deliver it.
ByRishi Sunak has promised to scrap degrees that don't lead to high salaries — but low pay does not indicate…
ByThis government’s Gradgrindist education policies seem like a deliberate assault on independent thought.
ByHow can it be portrayed as pro-immigration when it doesn’t recognise universities in Africa?
ByAre the government’s radical reforms to higher education about protecting students or simply saving money?
ByEntry requirements for student finance could block up to 55 per cent of children from disadvantaged backgrounds, the New Statesman…
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