Cambridge doesn’t need a £100m gift but other universities do
Readers respond to news that the University of Cambridge is receiving a £100m gift from the financier David HardingIn choosing to contrast Birkbeck...
Mental health: the students who helped themselves when help was too slow coming
With conventional services overstretched, teenagers in the Cumbria coastal town of Maryport teamed up to assist their peersLast year, Molly Robinson, 15, was...
Ruskin at 120: has the workers’ college lost its way?
The alma mater of John Prescott once offered workers an Oxford degree – and a future. Now its vision has changedIan Tugwell left...
New behaviour code for Sir and Miss caught in schools moral maze
A guide for headteachers in England aims to help them deal ethically with thorny issues like exclusions - and to confront colleagues who do...
How schools and businesses are addressing the Stem diversity gap
Taking away the ‘fear factor’ could help raise the profile of science, technology, engineering and maths careers – especially among female pupilsHow to...
What is the point of higher education if it doesn’t make people happy?
Forcing universities to compete with each other is a bad idea. What we need is a Teaching Happiness FrameworkIn The Methods of Ethics,...
University of Iowa denies publishing ‘religious watch list’ after it’s accused of discrimination
A Christian conservative student group filed a lawsuit against the University of Iowa after the group was kicked off campus for requiring its leaders to adhere to a...
Oxbridge needs student quotas to end its role in the ‘chumocracy’
Oxford and Cambridge are too good and too important to be allowed to remain in the middle agesNews that Oxford and Cambridge cut the...
Indiana superintendent accused of committing insurance fraud to help student resigns
The Indiana school superintendent who was arrested for allegedly using her own insurance to help a sick student resigned on Friday.Casey Smitherman, superintendent of Elwood Community Schools, reportedly resigned at...
Two years in, is the apprenticeship levy still working?
Promising the benefits of a degree with none of the debt, apprenticeships on the government’s payroll-funded scheme are more competitive than ever, yet the...
