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Why we should all be alarmed about our new university “businesses” and their enforcers
As has become clear, the universities are colluding with police and even the unions to clamp down on student protest and workers’ demands. There is a common strand that links these elements, and the overall picture is deeply alarming.
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Seldon’s proposals for school reform are fundamentally flawed
The British education system reflects long-standing social division. A recent Social Market Foundation paper proposes reforms combining variations of previous attempts with radical mercerization of state education.
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The unspoken atrocity of standardized education
As the corporate takeover of public education proceeds in the US and other countries, schools cease to be training grounds for social transformation.
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Educating Orthodoxy
The Russian Orthodox Church has been expanding its educational activities to include not only seminaries but universities offering a wide range of courses.
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Serbia: education, the market and democracy
What principles should underpin Serbia’s educational system from now to 2020?
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Lower aspirations for higher education
Since 2012 and the increase in university fees, effectively to £9,000 a year, there has been a steady erosion of logic in the debate about universities, their funding and the fundamental purpose of a university education.
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Finnish education chief: ‘We created a school system based on equality’
Finnish education often seems paradoxical to outside observers because it appears to break a lot of the rules we take for granted. Finnish children don’t begin school until age 7.
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Ukraine’s younger generation seeks new direction
Ukraine is a very different country than it was just a week ago, following a protest movement led by young people who overthrew the Russian-backed government.
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Barnfield College ‘wrongly claimed’ £1m of funding
Barnfield Federation, which runs Barnfield College in Luton, Bedfordshire, is being investigated over claims of financial mismanagement.
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Dark-skinned danger
A police-issued coloring book teaches Czech children a lesson about adults’ fears.
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