higher education
The widening gap between the educational haves and have nots
Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the University and College Union, on a new report showing "Two Britains", with the gap between the haves and have nots widening.
What the university access agreements won’t deliver
Usman Ali, National Union of Students (NUS) Vice President (Higher Education), writes of the flaws in the university access agreements, unveiled this week.
How the Cable/Willetts market in higher education ended up inflating fees
Left Foot Forward's Daniel Elton reports on how the coalition's higher education market ended up inflating prices and introduced pressures to increase government debt.
Scotland – home to the most expensive degrees?
SNP education secretary Mike Russell has announced plans that could see students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland who study in Scotland being charged £9,000.
We need to make sure all young people know the true facts about higher education
Simon Hughes MP, the government's Advocate for Access to Education, writes on the need for everyone to be honest, and not to put people off higher education.
Simon Hughes’s Oxbridge-bashing masks wider assault on higer education
The Government’s ‘Access Tsar’ Simon Hughes has launched a broadside against tutors interviewing candidates as part of a university admissions process.