Creative industries fear tuition fees will kill supply of talent
Costs put off students who fear being indebted, but there is a wider loss is to the economy
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Children need trained teachers, not careerists
Professor Marilyn Leask expresses her serious doubts about the value of Teach First, Melian Mansfield says education policy should be based on research, and John Freeman says there’s a simple way to stop schools improperly excluding pupils
Read moreSecret Teacher: funding cuts leave us unable to help SEN children at school
The sheer number of different needs in my class is staggering, but there is no budget to pay for the support my students – and I – so desperately require
Read moreDisadvantaged children face worse outcomes in some rich areas – report
Britain is in a ‘spiral of ever-growing division’ with rural and coastal regions being left behind, warns social mobility tsar
Read moreThe Brexit clock is ticking – time for Hammond to boost apprenticeships
Budget should include measures on training and skills shortages, with British firms set to lose easy access to migrant labour
Read moreThe Guardian view on school funding: pay fair
The worst intergenerational unfairness starts with 18-year-olds leaving school without the right qualifications through no fault of their own
Read moreHeadteachers demand more school cash in letter to Hammond
Group will march to Downing Street to deliver letter saying Tories’ national funding formula needs urgent reform
Read moreOxford college to launch scholarship in attempt to address slavery legacy
All Souls, which received substantial payment in 1710 from slave owner, to fund one student a year from Caribbean nations
Read moreThe £6,848 question for postgraduate students
As student debts mount, and with the loans system in need of reform, can targeted funding for postgraduate study increase social mobility?
Read moreGoogle DeepMind is making artificial intelligence a slave to the algorithm
Google’s role in university artificial intelligence courses alarms Sheila Hayman
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