Our universities can save us from America’s political division
New research shows Britain is proud of its institutions' ability to foster disagreement
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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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Harvard, elite privilege and the weaponisation of anti-Semitism
How should liberals pick between Donald Trump and this bastion of institutional elitism?
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International students can save Britain’s broke universities
They can find money at home, or they can find it abroad. But if they don’t find it, some are…
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The Premier League must give more to grassroots clubs
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The curse of the Oxbridge reject
As offers and rejections go out across the country, Britain needs to learn that Oxford and Cambridge are just universities.
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The intolerant age
How creeping censorship captured Britain’s institutions.
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Mezna Qato: “Without our libraries and universities, how will we tell the story of Gaza?”
The only way to lose Gaza is to stop listening to the Palestinians of Gaza.
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Student power
Published in the wake of the 1968 uprising at Columbia, Immanuel Wallerstein’s University in Turmoil holds critical lessons for the…
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On the Oxbridge barricade
Pro-Palestinian protesters at British universities are obscuring their own message.
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How the student Gaza protests went global
Pro-Palestine protests are proliferating across Western universities – but only the US has responded with military-grade police violence.
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Protest nation
Pro-Palestine activists at Columbia show an America unable to come to terms with its own helplessness.
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Britain is divided by educational status
The crisis at Goldsmiths is symbolic of what is going wrong in our universities.
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Inside Columbia’s campus wars
Divisions over Israel-Palestine have morphed into a fight for free speech and thrown the Ivy League university into crisis.
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The coalition government’s generational failure
Degrees cost four times what they did before 2012, when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats increased the amount universities could…
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Academics can no longer speak freely
Solving this crisis in higher education should transcend the division between the right and the left.
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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 SNP has been mugged by reality on tuition fees
The Scottish education minister Jenny Gilruth has opened the door to change on university funding.
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