If you're a Bahraini, protesting in the UK can have 'grave consequences' |...
After a student protest I lost my scholarship for taking part in an 'illegal' demo and was threatened by my education ministryI'm a Bahraini student doing my final year in mechanical engineering at a...
View ArticleFree schools must be allowed to profit, Michael Gove told
Education secretary's plans for reform doomed to failure if for-profit companies not allowed to run schools, says thinktankA rightwing thinktank has called on the government to allow profit-making...
View ArticleA good Republican idea | Michael Tomasky
When I find a good Republican idea, I am the first to say I agree. Well, it took near on three years, but I am with Ohio Governor John Kasich on pushing his state's colleges and universities to grant...
View ArticleTeachers heckle schools minister over pension proposals
Union delegates jeer as Nick Gibb defends coalition plans, while poll shows scale of opposition to education changesThe schools minister, Nick Gibb, was heckled and jeered by teachers as he attempted...
View ArticleLetter: Drama bows to cuts
I have a similar story to that of James Dickenson (School music coda, Letters, 20 April). On Friday, 15 April, Leicestershire axed its drama and dance advisory service. For 40 years it had been a...
View ArticleNow the maths is in, it's clear: tuition fees don't add up | Zoe Williams
Either the coalition didn't do the numbers properly or its policy was designed to drag university access back to postwar levelsMost universities have announced their fees for 2012, and it hasn't worked...
View ArticleCribsheet 21.04.11
Oiling the wheels of changeThere's an interesting spat going on in Ohio, where the Republican governor John Kasich wants universities to grant degrees in just three years instead of four, in exchange...
View ArticleWanted: a £400 laptop for university
Simeon needs a new laptop to take to university, and he'd like it to be both portable and powerful. What's the best he can do for £400?I'm going to university this year, and one of the things that I...
View ArticleCan architects be built in the classroom?
The government wants your advice on rebuilding the cultural curriculum. So how would you nurture the Frank Lloyd Wrights of the future?Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the greatest architects of the 20th...
View ArticleWhat do you want? Libraries all over the bloody place?
Poor Glonk could barely swallow a mouthful of dinner. She was too busy rattling on, distraught, that the council now calls library members 'customers'My friend Glonk came round last night, agitated and...
View ArticleEngland has only 30 black male heads
Department for Education's figures lead one headteacher to accuse teaching profession of institutional racismThere are just 30 black male headteachers in England's 21,600 state schools, official...
View ArticleLetters: The music goes on
I was disturbed to read James Dickenson's letter (Letters, 20 April) about Bedfordshire Youth Orchestra. As far as I am concerned, there is no reason why last weekend's concert should be the...
View ArticleCofE schools urged to offer more places to non-Christians
Bishop of Oxford urges CoE school heads to allocate no more than 10% of places to practising AnglicansThe Church of England plans to encourage its schools to offer more places to non-Christians. The Rt...
View ArticleChurch of England schools urged to offer more places to non-Christians
Bishop of Oxford urges CoE school heads to allocate no more than 10% of places to practising AnglicansThe Church of England plans to encourage its schools to offer more places to non-Christians. The Rt...
View ArticleFrom oversubscribed to undermanned: are we facing a shortage of lawyers? |...
Since the Law Society's 2009 warning that the profession was oversubscribed student numbers have fallen, possibly too farThe recession-hit legal profession has spent the past couple of years trying to...
View ArticleFrom the archive, 22 April 1971: Anglicans may revise law on divorcees
Originally published in the Guardian on 22 April 1971The report of the Commission on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage unanimously recommends that the Church should find out if there is enough support...
View ArticleKeeping the faith | Poll
Poll: The bishop of Oxford has called for Church of England faith schools to throw open their doors to children who aren't Anglicans. Do you agree with his plans?
View ArticleFaith schools: now even the church admits they're unfair | Polly Toynbee
The Bishop of Oxford has blown the whistle on unfair selectivity, bringing muscle to the social mobility debateThe Archbishop of Canterbury gave a pleasingly radical Thought for the Day, as the Queen...
View ArticleSmall companies offer graduate opportunities
Hands-on experience at a smaller firm can provide a wider range of skills and bolster your CVAmid all the furore about parental string-pulling and unpaid internships, one of the questions overlooked in...
View ArticleWhat I'm really thinking: The public school pupil
'Wealthy, fortunate, toff, rich boy: these are a few of the labels I have been given'I go to a public school in a very pretty part of the country. The school is wealthy and has access to an abbey, with...
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