Education

Articles

Mrs Chips by Laurie Penny (November 2008)

Beyond town and gown by Jenny Nelson (October 2008)

The relationship between students and locals is fraught with long-held mistrust and resentment. Ex-student Jenny Nelson looks at the colourful history of these often segregated communities, and meets some of the student activists who are trying to break out of the ghettos they’ve inherited

Students are citizens too by Aled Fisher (October 2008)

With ‘top-up’ fees and increasing debt leaving many students less willing to fight for anyone but themselves, London School of Economics union president Aled Fisher argues for more, not less, participation in wider politics

The fight for the NUS by Hind Hassan (October 2008)

In trying to push through a reform package that the Guardian has called a ‘Blairite revolution’, the National Union of Students’ Labour leadership is putting the NUS on a path to self-destruction, says executive member Hind Hassan

Back to class by Laurie Penny (October 2008)

The falling value and rising price of a degree is hitting some harder than others. Laurie Penny looks at what’s left of the egalitarian dream of universally accessible education

Death of the intellectual by Terry Eagleton (October 2008)

The ambition of advanced capitalism is not simply to combat radical ideas – it is to abolish the very notion that there could be a serious alternative to the present. Terry Eagleton laments the passing of a critical age

Mind the gap by Angela Eagle (February 2006)

The education white paper and the market principles behind it are opposed by many Labour MPs. Here, one of them sets out what would be needed to win back their support.