Inequality: are hyper-selective universities making it worse?
John Morgan considers the hierarchies of prestige in higher education, the insights offered by big data research, and whether mixed-ability universities are the answer
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Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds
Tuition fees rank marginally above animal rights on list of voting priorities聽鈥 but young people assign higher importance
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Why aren鈥檛 we debating all the issues in higher education?
As the row over fees reignites and mutates into a debate over the very purpose of universities, silence reigns on the issue of hyper-selectivity
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 20 July 2017
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Layers of hypocrisy in TEF reaction
Emilie Murphy was not the first academic to declare that the teaching excellence framework could not possibly be credible 鈥渨ithout anyone actually stepping foot inside classrooms and lecture theatres...
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A line in the sand
Teesside University recently announced that all professors who are not in management roles will have to reapply for their jobs (鈥淯niversity tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs鈥, News...
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Metamorphosis
There is something deeply disingenuous about Jo Johnson鈥檚 roseate view of the effect of tuition fees on our universities. Prospective students are clearly put off by the threat of graduating with 拢57...
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Marked absences
It was disappointing that the article about England鈥檚 student finance system (鈥淥ne in three v-cs backs Labour fees policy: survey鈥, News, 13 July) contained no reference to the funding regime for...
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Teesside鈥檚 鈥榠gnorant鈥 audit of professors under international fire
University attacked by 750 academics for forcing entire professoriate to reapply for jobs