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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Why we need a more balanced approach to China
Severing ties with Chinese research institutions would be a mistake for the UK’s higher education sector.
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Keir Starmer’s tuition fees U-turn ignores the real problem with the system
There’s no justification for a lifelong stealth tax on those graduates who weren’t old or wealthy enough to escape it.
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Letter of the week: In defence of higher education
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Why universities are making us stupid
A managerial war is remaking and destroying our once-noble centres of higher education.
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Can a new university breathe life into Britain’s climate education?
Black Mountains College in Wales, and its co-founder Ben Rawlence, is advocating a wartime-style overhaul of the way people are…
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