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Is Ed Miliband's 'British promise' an empty one? | Beth Staunton
Labour's rhetorical attempt to win over the student movement is misguided – we need practical support, not wordsAt an average student anti-cuts meeting, the main topic of discussion is rarely about our...
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Warning! Education choices aren't how they seem in this Russell Group guide |...
A new guide to post-16 education talks of 'informed choices' – but empowerment can be illusoryThere is a seductive rhetoric behind the Russell Group's newly launched guide for teenagers making choices...
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What to do with a degree in management studies
Graduates with a strong awareness of business, economics and people management are in demand across a range of sectorsIf you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready...
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The secret to e-learning
Online courses are on the rise as firms continue to cut training budgets and the newly redundant update their skill setsYour desk may overlook the desolate edge-of-town business park and the only lunch...
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Unthinkable? Eric Pickles saves the libraries | Editorial
The communities minister can do something to disassociate the 'big society' from big cutsIt's been a rotten few days for the "big society", which now looks lethally damaged by its confrontation with...
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Lucy Mangan: It's time to kick up a stink
Let's look on the bright side of council cutbacks. After all, optimism is free, and we need to start deploying itHonestly, sometimes our unwillingness as a nation to see the glass as half full instead...
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Letters: Music in schools and Pompey Pop
Martin Pickard attributes the decline of working-class pop musicians to the "abandonment of music in state schools" (Letters, 1 February). In recent years I have been conducting an extensive research...
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What schools for the future?
The first "free schools" will open later this year, part of the government's education reforms. Toby Young is setting one up, Melissa Benn is resisting at all costsToby Young is the founder of the West...
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What's your advice for Afghan women, Hillary Clinton? | Samira
I've taken huge risks to defy custom and pursue my education. Now I, and many women like me, need real help from the USThe Afghan Women's Writing Project began in May 2009 with the goal of nurturing...
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Isabella Rossellini's guide to the sex life of the anchovy | Interview
In a series of short films, Isabella Rossellini acts as a range of animals having sex. She just wants to amuse us, she says – and teach us some hard science about the birds and the beesAgainst the...
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Down in the privatised forest
Chris Riddell on George Osborne's unkind cutsChris Riddell
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Writers stage a 'shhh-in' against coalition plans to close 450 libraries
Celebrities and leading authors lead protests over 'shameful' threat to cherished servicesProtests against the planned closure of more than 450 library services were staged today. Library users,...
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French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey
French is one of the languages of the 21st century and it must stay on the syllabus of universitiesWithin a few years, the study of French at UK universities, already severely endangered, may well...
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Must try harder: school reports just aren't what they used to be | Edward...
All children must now win – there can be no losers. But what use is a report that glosses over a child's failings?I've got a new motto: "Never open a neglected drawer unless you have an hour to waste."...
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Dorothy Thompson obituary
Innovative historian who focused on the Chartist movementThe historian Dorothy Thompson, who has died aged 87, was best known for her writing on the social and cultural aspects of the 19th-century...
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Christopher Pemberton obituary
Artist, scholar, teacher and translator with a deep affinity for the work of CézanneThe artist, scholar and teacher Christopher Pemberton, who has died aged 87, brought a penetrating intelligence and...
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Coalition's pupil premium plan 'could widen gap between rich and poor'
Council leaders in London have warned that the plans could disadvantage the poorest parts of the countryA coalition reform to give schools extra money for every child they take from the poorest homes...
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£9,000 fee could be the norm, students warned
Higher fees could be the norm despite government's call for fair accessTop universities are poised to charge undergraduates the maximum fee of £9,000 a year from next September, according to the...
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Super library arrives as hundreds of others face closure
• Birmingham spends £200m on Centenary Square building• Authors protest against cuts to library service The camera swoops and swirls through a vast space that could be the lobby of a luxury hotel, all...
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Apprentices more useful than graduates, employers say
City & Guilds survey uncovers barriers to employmentEmployers find apprentices are worth more to their businesses than university graduates, a poll has shown. City & Guilds, which awards...
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