Given that the government’s own representative, Jo Johnson, the younger brother of Boris and the Minister of State for Universities and Science, described it as ‘the most significant legislative reform of the sector for twenty-five years’, you would be forgiven for presuming that the Higher Education and Research Bill just passed by parliament at least possessed some semblance of academic…
With Brexit set to cost Britain’s already struggling universities billions of pounds thanks to the inevitable drop in student numbers and loss of EU funding, it is worth remembering that even as Home Secretary Theresa May’s hard line, bullying, and bigoted stance on immigration often saw education as an expedient target. Adamant that foreign students should be counted as part of immigration…
It’s the rule rather than the exception when it comes to British politics, but the case of grammar schools offers an especially egregious example of wealthy, typically ageing and privately educated Conservatives telling the working class to forego their principles and do as they say if they wish to be better off. The sole argument in favour of the grammar…
