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31 juillet 2018

Should student customers give it all up for the Love Island lottery?

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianThe number of students receiving unconditional offers for university places has, we are told, rocketed this year (Sharp rise in unconditional offers prompts calls for reform at universities, 26 July). The decline in the quality of British universities in the independent international ratings tables can be traced back to Tony Blair’s totally irrational ideological decision to get 50% of our young people into university. More...

31 juillet 2018

#MeToo on campus: UK universities investigate sexual assaults themselves

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianAs more women speak up over sexual violence, universities are cracking down on ‘lad culture’. More...

31 juillet 2018

Education secretary: elite universities must improve access

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianElite universities are not instinctively biased against disadvantaged children but must do more to improve access, the UK’s education secretary has said. More...

31 juillet 2018

Student loan repayment income 'undervalued by £600m'

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianA clash between the Department for Education and the Treasury over how to value the government’s student loans portfolio may have led to more than £600m in income from future loan repayments being overlooked, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned. More...

31 juillet 2018

Dog-eat-dog culture is bad for students’ mental health

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianYour article about “perfectionism” and young people in higher education (G2, 17 July) notes, but nimbly skips over, the clear link between neoliberal dog-eat-dog individualism and the psychological horrors suffered by unfortunate millennials who have never known anything but rabid destructive competition. More...

31 juillet 2018

Manchester University students paint over Rudyard Kipling mural

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianStudents at the University of Manchester have painted over a mural of a poem by Rudyard Kipling, arguing that the writer “dehumanised people of colour”. More...

31 juillet 2018

Why do black male graduates earn £7,000 less per year than their white peers?

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianBlack men face many barriers when it comes to finding a well-paid job. But the truth is that racism cannot be overcome by amassing more qualifications. More...

31 juillet 2018

Where are the black scientists, artists and thinkers in university syllabuses?

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianDegrees focusing on blackness should become more of a priority if we are to build a truly inclusive society. More...

31 juillet 2018

Country diary: metamorphosis in a museum tower

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianThis glorious structure is a place rich in history. As we walked through the galleries our guide paused to show us the great oak door behind which Bishop Wilberforce confronted “Darwin’s bulldog”, Thomas Huxley, in their famous debate on evolution. We, however, were intent on a more modest fraction of the building’s past. More...

31 juillet 2018

Universities outsource mental health services despite soaring demand

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianCritics say shifting counselling resources into ‘wellbeing’ is perverse and dangerous when depression and suicide among students are at worrying levels. More...

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