The pro-Palestine movement’s alternative campus
The Soas Liberated Zone is offering the London university’s students a different kind of educational experience.
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Donald Trump vs Columbia
The White House claims it is protecting Jews while transforming Ivy League campuses into places of fear.
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Bridget Phillipson’s education bill is pleasing no one
It seems the minister is empowering local bureaucrats and ideologues at the expense of headteachers.
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Euan Blair: “Education does not only happen on campus”
The tech start-up founder – and son of Tony Blair – on the value of apprenticeships and what his father’s…
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Bonfire of the humanities
With departments in decline, the English professor has become a risible figure in the British novel.
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For those graduating this summer: consider the generations to come
A university education gives you disproportionate freedom, power and potential. It’s a real responsibility.
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The Tories are waging war on students
Who on the Tory front bench would want their children to eschew university in favour of apprenticeships?
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The wrench of standing down as an MP – my dream job since childhood
Also this week: Celebrating Harlow’s rebirth, and memories of being cared for by Nurse Nadine Dorries.
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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 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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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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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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Why affirmative action failed
Higher education is not an adequate means to achieve a more just society.
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The attack on the humanities is snobbery dressed as realism
Our world-leading universities are in crisis, yet debate centres on “entitled” students who have the audacity to want to study…
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Rishi Sunak’s maths to 18 plan doesn’t add up
The policy doesn’t reflect voters’ priorities and there aren’t enough teachers to deliver it.
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You don’t win over young people by blocking their access to education
Rishi Sunak has promised to scrap degrees that don't lead to high salaries — but low pay does not indicate…
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Since when is the point of an English degree getting a “highly skilled” job?
This government’s Gradgrindist education policies seem like a deliberate assault on independent thought.
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The new visa route for graduates is a con
How can it be portrayed as pro-immigration when it doesn’t recognise universities in Africa?
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