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After Day X: 28 Nov Student Coordination
…and it gets worse still: “After Day X: 28 Nov Student Coordination After the day of action… NATIONAL STUDENT COORDINATION 12noon – 5pm Sunday 28th November Birkbeck College, Central London, WC1E 7HX...
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Teach First, McKinsey & Goldman Sachs
Continuing our investigations into Teach First, it is good to know that this charitable organisation has powerful backing. The founder and CEO at Teach First is Brett Wigdortz. Our Brett has no...
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Roll of Shame: MPs Who Voted For Fees Hike
Hansard data reveals who voted for the tuition fees hike yesterday. What is galling to us is the number of MPs who despite benefiting themselves from a free or heavily subsidised higher education now...
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Continuing Americanisation of UK Education
With the narrow victory for the Coalition of One over tuition fees and the rise of Teach First, it seems that the UK is moving ever closer to becoming the newest addition to the United States of...
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2011 – More of the Same?
With the arrival of the New Year and in our first post of 2011, we wanted to consider what lies ahead for education this coming year. We couldn’t help but think that this year – 2011 – will resemble...
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Figure Crunching
Number of apprenticeships to be created by 2014 according to Vince “Janus” Cable: 100,000 Number of young people currently unemployed in the UK and the worst figures since records began: 953,000 (20%...
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Russell Group Red Herrings
The battle lines over control of tuition fees have been drawn and its plain to see the fight will be dirty. We say this after receiving one Russell Group uni newsletter where it looks to us that their...
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Imperial College Tuition Fee Mutiny
It has just been formally announced that Imperial College will charge the maximum £9k per year for their degree courses from 2012. But why is this Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine (STEM)...
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Tuition Fees Brain Drain
The Press Association report that research suggests more British students are studying for degrees overseas than their peers from the UK’s big academic rivals. Some 22,000 UK students are now enrolled...
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Tuition Fees Brain Drain Again
An article by D.D. Guttenplan in the New York Times ‘British Educators Telling Students: Go Abroad‘ reiterates what we, others, and even the government, have been saying about those who think...
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