higher education Articles

It is difficult to know whether this government will best be remembered for its U-turns or its stubborn refusal to face facts, but both provide an opportunity for Labour. In June 2011, only days after the Home Office had acknowledged that its changes to international...

The biggest drop in university applications in decades is yet another example of an ill-thought-out coalition policy reaching its natural conclusion while Labourites stand at the sidelines Cassandra-like watching while the mess we warned would happen unfolds. But this...

The Helena Kennedy Foundation works with students in further education progressing to higher education. When students’ main concern is the cost associated with studying, it comes as little surprise that the first year of university tuition fees set with the maximum...

The Labour party must look to education as a way of winning arguments and changing lives. It shows our commitment to communities; education is where the future is built. It is also vital to our fiscal credibility that we find the middle ground between overspending and...