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Call for archbishop to head inquiry into vice-chancellors' payAndrew Adonis urges investigation amid row over Christina Slade’s £800,000 remuneration at Bath Spa University
news
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U-turn on two-year degrees predicted as fears grow over fundingThe government promised shorter university courses, but will it dare to raise student fees to make that happen?
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Instead of trying to cram more learning into less time, we should allow people to take their degree at the pace that suits themStop treating university degrees as something to be endured
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in depth
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‘Drill and kill’? English schools turn to scripted lessons to raise standardsDirect instruction has been praised by the schools minister as more effective than a child-centred approach – but its use is controversial
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Will the UK get a Brexit deal on research? That's the €160bn questionEighteen months have passed since the EU referendum and the government’s position on science and research is no clearer – we need certainty
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As a young academic, I was repeatedly sexually harassed at conferencesEarly in my career, older men I looked up to took advantage of their power to make sexual advances. But I never talked about it, so nobody ever knew
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Secret Teacher: funding cuts leave us unable to help SEN children at schoolThe sheer number of different needs in my class is staggering, but there is no budget to pay for the support my students – and I – so desperately need
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'We help them flourish and bloom': using nature to keep students in educationAt a time when 790,000 young people are not in education, employment or training, a charity focusing on skills such as horticulture and floristry is encouraging some to give learning another chance
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global view
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'Impossible' New Zealand maths exam even flummoxes teachersComplaints being investigated after ‘geometric reasoning’ section of high school paper left brightest students despondent and in tears
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Women’s fashion, periods and trousersLetters: Labour peer Margaret Prosser on fashion photographers portraying women as objects, Mari Peacock on her menstrual art and Clare Hale on school uniforms
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#FreeEdNow: students march for free education – in picturesThousands hit the streets of London calling for tuition fees to be abolished
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Commoners can wear corduroy trousers tooBrief letters: Yvonne Burney obituary | Italian CDs | Misuse of fortuitous | ‘Middle-class’ cords | Winter fuel allowance
opinion
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If babies can share, why can’t highly paid university vice-chancellors?The outgoing head of the University of Bath says she is not embarrassed by her huge salary – it’s an example of the unfairness that runs through Britain
Britain distrusts meritocracy: that’s the lesson from Bath University