Stop acting like private school pupils “own” Oxbridge places
Private school heads demand that university places be awarded on merit alone when they are the ones that have had…
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Tony Blair is right: more people should go on to higher education
Rather than trying to limit the number who enter university, we should focus on making it more effective.
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UK students set for largest-ever drop in living standards
Students starting courses this year face a real-terms cut in support of 7 per cent.
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There’s a problem with university culture – but it isn’t the students
Do the grown-ups decrying today’s students really believe they never did anything when they were young that would have caused…
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Exclusive: Majority of poorer pupils could be barred from university under loan rules
Entry requirements for student finance could block up to 55 per cent of children from disadvantaged backgrounds, the New Statesman…
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Reforms should hit exploitative universities instead of poor students
Pupils who flunk their GCSEs are too often funnelled on to expensive degrees that will be of no benefit to…
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The real reason students market their trauma in university applications
We’re forced to create stories where poverty is not a structural phenomenon, but an obstacle on a personal journey.
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The Conservatives’ war on the humanities will hurt working-class students
In the name of “anti-elitist” politics, Britain’s cultural landscape will likely become even more middle class.
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