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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The culture war claims Claudine Gay
How the Ivy League hearings on anti-Semitism reveal the wounded American elite.
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Who would be a student in 2023?
Undergraduates face inadequate maintenance loans, poor housing and a soaring cost of living – I feel dreadful for them.
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Can our sluggish education system survive in a fast-changing world?
The traditional university course is poorly suited for our future.
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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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What affirmative action advocates ignore
Progressives are happy to uphold one form of discrimination for another – and it’s Asian Americans that lose out.
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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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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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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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The Policy Ask with Tim Bradshaw: “R&D investment will give us the talent to tackle climate change and pandemics”
The chief executive of the Russell Group on barriers to global academic collaboration and the need for a Zero Carbon…
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How to stoke a culture war within the Oxford student union
A bureaucratic change has been blown up into a woke battle between women and trans people.
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