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Kettle tactics risk Hillsborough-style tragedy – doctor
Crush of student protesters on Westminster Bridge compared to 1980s stadium disasterA senior doctor has warned that police risk repeating a Hillsborough-type tragedy if they continue with tactics...
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How universities close the door on the working class | Barbara Ellen
This is a covert nobbling of poorer students ill-versed in the dark art of "admissions freemasonry"Never mind Santa, a new class divide rule has come to town. Forget all that complicated stuff about...
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The price of Vince Cable's university fees | Ewan Crawford
The tuition fee plans will be a helping hand for Scots who seek the break-up of the United KingdomIt's probably fair to say the prime motivation for Prince William's decision to study at St Andrews...
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University funding to be cut before increase in tuition fees
Higher education budget could lose £400m as universities minister David Willetts calls for 'serious efficiency savings'The government is expected to announce the first cuts to university budgets,...
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Unions, get set for battle | Len McCluskey
We must join students in a broad strike movement to combat attempts to strangle the welfare stateBritain's students have certainly put the trade union movement on the spot. Their mass protests against...
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Science Weekly podcast: A sneak preview of the Royal Institution's Christmas...
After a 10-year break, the Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures return to the BBC. This year they are presented by materials scientist Dr Mark Miodownik. The question the three lectures are asking...
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Charlie Brooker | How to cut tuition fees
We should teach only the useful stuff: scavenging, strangling and how to operate a water cannonYou can't put a price on a good education. Except, actually, you can – and it turns out that price is just...
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Politics live blog – 20 December
• Andrew Sparrow with all today's politics news – including David Cameron's meeting with union chiefs• Read Andrew Sparrow's lunchtime summary5.45pm: Here's an afternoon summary.• Michael Gove has...
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Video: Jody McIntyre: 'What the government are trying to do is to widen the...
Video: Activist Jody McIntyre on inequality, political process, and the student demonstrationsMustafa KhaliliMatthew Taylor
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University places to be cut by 10,000 by 2012, minister reveals
David Willetts says this year's extra funding to meet surge in applications will be withdrawnThe number of places on degree courses in England will be cut by 10,000 by 2012, according to a government...
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Students get trade union support for next protest against tuition fees
GMB and Unite leaders support planned London march while police chief says demos mean officers are not fighting crimeStudents protesting against increased tuition fees and cuts to education spending...
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U-turn as Michael Gove agrees to continue funding school sports system
Education secretary announces he has found £112m to continue schools sport partnerships across EnglandMichael Gove today performed a major U-turn by agreeing to continue funding the schools sports...
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School sports U-turn reflects well on David Cameron – and badly on Michael...
The education secretary is clearly driven by a sense of mission so powerful that it can obscure good sense and make him believe he does not need to bother to research his subjectToday's decision by...
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The sporting bullies return | Andrew Martin
While Michael Gove's U-turn on school sports is welcome, why does the coalition heed these critics alone?This appears to be a government whose ministers draw up with relish schemes for severe spending...
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US embassy cables: Branson says British education does not instil...
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WikiLeaks cables: UK businessmen 'overeducated' says Richard Branson
Virgin chief critical of British education system during discussion of entrepreneurship at Beijing business lunchPerhaps it's because he left school at 15 and ran his own business while his peers were...
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Napoleon-proof your home: convert a Martello tower
Britain's Martello towers were built to keep the French navy at bay. Jonathan Glancey reports on how one rotting relic in Suffolk was turned into an extraordinary new homeMartello towers were built, at...
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The Rev Margaret Thrall obituary
The Rev Margaret Thrall, who has died aged 81, had a long and distinguished career as a theologian, and taught at the University of Wales, Bangor, between 1962 and 1996. She was a terrifying New...
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Sheila Coates obituary
My friend Sheila Coates, who has died from myeloma aged 67, was a pioneer in services for autistic children and their families in and around Oxfordshire. In the early 1970s, Sheila was asked by the...
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When filling judges' benches, we need to solicit more solicitors | Neil Rose
Much can be done to encourage solicitors to apply for posts in the judiciary, a sector historically dominated by barristersThe latest statistics from the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) tell the...
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