…people from going to university,” he said. “The opposite has occurred; numbers have grown, in particular those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our reforms now also mean universities are well-funded for the…
Firms are offered interns on half the minimum wage
…traditional means”. Placement UK advertises to companies that it can offer them interns to work for as little as £6,000 a year compared with the £12,875 wage of someone employed…
Vince Cable: some private universities ‘a lot of dross’
…growth in the number of institutions in recent years. … The comments – reported by Times Higher Education magazine – were made at a fringe meeting co-hosted by the Social…
Sir Peter Lampl: Tuition fees up, social mobility down
…restraint and suggested a graduate tax. He said that no party with a deep and genuine commitment to social mobility could support the current proposals. I have no party political…
Sir Peter Lampl: How we fail our students
Sir Peter Lampl wrote for The Times on new university access benchmarks. TODAY’S news that the number of students from state schools going to 13 leading universities has increased by…
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…from growth mind-set attitudes (every pupil can do well if they make enough effort) to fixed intelligence assumptions (some pupils are just cleverer than others, and must be fast-streamed to…