Letter of the week: In defence of higher education
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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 chief executive of the Russell Group on barriers to global academic collaboration and the need for a Zero Carbon…
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A bureaucratic change has been blown up into a woke battle between women and trans people.
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Only allowing them into elite universities relegates domestic students to lower-tier universities – which end up deprived of funding.
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The number of medicine and dentistry students will go down to pre-pandemic levels this year.
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For those who complain about the US president’s latest fulfilment of a campaign promise: politics is meant to help people.
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Tony Blair was wrong – exams are the best form of assessment we’ve got.
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Caps on foreign students won’t work.
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There’s only one solution to this results day disappointment.
By8 June 1973: Pimm’s, rattles and oars at Oxford Eights Week.
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I’m sure Cambridge University teaches many skills, but the real career boost comes from “Cambridge” being on your CV.
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Never before has Britain had so many qualified graduates. And never before have their qualifications amounted to so little.
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“Offence” isn’t the only way to measure the worth of literature.
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Rishi Sunak has promised to scrap degrees that don’t lead to high salaries — but low pay does not indicate…
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Our education system is in crisis – and this is her priority?
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Studying classics has many values, not least helping you spot when charlatan politicians cover their deficiencies with Cicero quotes.
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In the current thinking, my drama degree is deemed to have failed me.
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Elitist institutions hold us back from real equality.
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Are the government’s radical reforms to higher education about protecting students or simply saving money?
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