Why educating girls is the best cure for the world’s problems
Female education can reduce population pressures, boost economic growth, curb infant mortality and improve child nutrition.
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What the university staff strike reveals about our broken higher education system
The marketisation of our universities is facing its biggest opposition yet.
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Leader: University tuition fees and the common good
We do too little to help the poorest ascend the education escalator to a life of more opportunity.
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It might be a pseudo science, but students take the threat of eugenics seriously
Today’s white nationalists and neo-Nazis make extensive use of racist pseudo-science to bolster their political arguments.
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Tackling tuition fees may not be the vote-winner the government is hoping for
In theory, Theresa May is right to try to match Labour’s policy. But could it work?
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A tale of two sixth forms: inside the East End Eton at the heart of Britain’s education divide
What does the new breed of “super-selective” free schools mean for social mobility in deprived boroughs like Newham?
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The Presidents Club, David Meller, and the rise of the education philanthropist
Meller’s fall may be an extreme case, but the increasing involvement of businessmen in education raises wider concerns.
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We lacked guts in government, but Labour today should be bold on adult learning
A former New Labour cabinet minister on the education challenge for 2018.
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