The education secretary’s announcement on Monday that the Conservative government wants to offer less “economically valuable” university subjects at cheaper prices will serve only to further entrench elitism in education. More...
27 février 2018
As a working-class student, I know degree pricing would entrench elitism
28 janvier 2018
Why admissions at elite colleges aren’t really about merit
More than 500,000 students who are in the top half of their high school class never get a college degree or complete a certificate program, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce. Those 500,000 students also represent about one-third of students who scored 1000 or higher on the SAT, another way of defining top-performing students, it found. More...
26 novembre 2017
Yes, we must decolonise: our teaching has to go beyond elite white men
There’s no need for outrage over changes to Cambridge University’s English curriculum. Issues of race, class and gender are all relevant in literature. More...
15 novembre 2017
Elite universities invest endowments via tax havens
By Brendan O’Malley. Elite universities in the United States and the United Kingdom have been investing endowment funds offshore in order to pay little or no tax, according to details revealed in the so-called Paradise Papers, a series of leaked documents from Appleby, a legal firm based in Bermuda. More...07 novembre 2017
Minister aims to refocus elite universities programme
By Eugene Vorotnikov. The Russian Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva, is proposing to drastically cut the number of participants in the state’s ‘Project 5-100’ aimed at developing world-class universities – in order to improve its chances of achieving its objectives by 2020. More...Threat to cull elite Project 5-100 universities blocked
By Brendan O’Malley and Eugene Vorotnikov. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Olga Golodets, has ruled out any imminent adoption of a proposal by the Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva, to remove funding from 15 out of 21 institutions in the Project 5-100 elite universities programme to concentrate on six institutions. More...22 octobre 2017
Time to level our elitist playing field
Your report (Revealed: Britain’s most powerful elite is 97% white, 25 September) on the low representation of black and ethnic minority groups among Britain’s most powerful people omits public appointments, where the picture is slightly more positive. More...
Andrew Adonis and an elitist attitude towards former polytechnics
Lord Adonis (Strip former polytechnics of university status, says ex-minister, 11 October) shows a staggering ignorance of the status and quality of many of those institutions. More...
21 octobre 2017
Teachers in elite universities not feeling benefit of £9k tuition fees
University teaching staff complain they are paid less than researchers and have inferior contracts, report shows. More...
15 octobre 2017
Not So Open Doors
By Scott Jaschik. Elite colleges need to change policies to recruit, admit and graduate talented low-income students, report says. It calls out some by name. More...
