Two years in, is the apprenticeship levy still working?
Promising the benefits of a degree with none of the debt, apprenticeships on the government’s payroll-funded scheme are more competitive than ever, yet the...
Apprenticeships offer an alternative to uni and debt – why are schools ignoring them?
Despite high-quality apprenticeships offering a route to degree-level qualifications, many students are being let down by schools that fail to engage with employers and...
The advertising industry has a diversity problem – apprenticeships can help
It’s really important that our workforce reflects the kind of people that we’re advertising to, says Sue Frogley, UK chief executive of Publicis Media...
Award-winning teacher among staff needing charity to scrape by
Teacher poverty is now so acute that the Victorian charity helping them is running on its reservesIt was winning a national Teaching Award and getting...
Ruskin at 120: has the workers’ college lost its way?
The alma mater of John Prescott once offered workers an Oxford degree – and a future. Now its vision has changedIan Tugwell left...
Oxbridge needs student quotas to end its role in the ‘chumocracy’
Oxford and Cambridge are too good and too important to be allowed to remain in the middle agesNews that Oxford and Cambridge cut the...
Levels of distress and illness among students in UK ‘alarmingly high’
Largest-ever mental health poll of universities ‘an urgent call to action’, say researchersA poll of almost 38,000 UK students suggests rates of psychological distress...
An LGBT education would have spared me years of misery
Alan Clark says LGBT education should be mandatory in all schools. Jill Wallis thinks sex education is both a right and a boonSimon Jenkins agonises about...
Birmingham school stops LGBT lessons after parents protest
Hundreds of children withdrawn from Parkfield community school for dayA primary school that taught pupils about homosexuality as part of a programme to challenge...
Britain’s battle to get to grips with literacy is laid bare in H is...
New documentary reveals difficulties facing white, working-class boysLife repeats itself, Grant says dejectedly. “It’s just repeat, repeat, repeat. I had it, my dad...
