Will 2012 see the first university bankruptcy?
Alex Hern looks ahead to 2012 and what the year holds for students in Britain.
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Government funding of university research at lowest proportion since 1900s
Annual public spending on university teaching and research in England will fall to its lowest proportion in over a century.
We can’t dodge the needed change to social care any longer
Jessica Studdert argues that all the evidence shows we need to make some major changes to how we fund and operate social care, and they need to be done soon.
Rip-off Britain: Our train fares are triple those on the continent
Sophie Allain reveals the shocking disparity between British fares and those in the continent.
Safe in their hands? Lansley, Cameron and the NHS in 2012
You know someone’s true feelings when they highlight failings whenever they can, yet play down any success – so it is with the coalition and the NHS in 2012.
What costs £1.3 million a pop and Boris hopes will get him reelected?
Val Shawcross argues that Boris is wasting millions of public money on an unnecessary and expensive fleet of prestige buses.
For-profit universities have failed in the US, so why import them here?
Sally Hunt argues that the experience of the USA in its experiment with for-profit universities shows the danger of importing that model to the UK
Parties across the nations split over response to strike action
Ed Jacobs runs through Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’s responses to the strikes.
Life in the Lords logjam may be death for the health bill
Alex Hern gives a latest update on where the NHS bill stands in the House of Lords, and writes about the extent of the logjam in the upper house.
Osborne’s climb-down on train fares shows this chancellor is for turning
Alexandra Woodsworth writes about the victory for passionate campaigning that George Osborne’s u-turn on fare rises represents