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Chalk Talk: Welcome to the brave new world of corporate degrees
Thursday, 7 July 2011
David Willetts's brave new world of higher education has not been very long in gestation.
Student protest against Leeds Trinity's fee rises is longest sit-in in the country
Thursday, 7 July 2011
The activists tell Richard Garner why they won’t give up the fight
Thomas Docherty: 'AC Grayling's New College for the Humanities betrays us all'
Thursday, 30 June 2011
If AC Grayling really wanted to defend the humanities, he would fight for them within the public sphere, argues Thomas Docherty, in response to the professor's piece for The Independent
Why is there a prejudice against private universities?
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Since he announced his intention to found the New College of the Humanities, AC Grayling has faced ferocious criticism from those who say it will be elitist and a threat to the principle of publicly funded higher education. Here, he defends his controversial project...
David Willetts: 'We must radically rethink the way we see higher education'
Thursday, 12 May 2011
It is a year to the day since David Willetts first took up his post as Universities Minister. Since then, he has had to endure his fair share of heckling from students opposed to his plans for raising tuition fees to up to £9,000 a year, engage in a battle to get his fees proposals through the Commons and spent hours burning the midnight oil on a White Paper on the future of higher education – which should see the light of day later this summer.
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