Respected Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin has come forward on the eve of the great author’s bicentenary to claim that UK pupils are no longer able to appreciate the classic works of great writers like Dickens and Shakespeare.
A new tuition fees commission has been set up to investigate the effects of the new higher education funding scheme, paying particular attention to the impact on students from poorer backgrounds. Will Hutton will lead the commission.
A battle between academia old and new has commenced, with New College, Oxford fighting the New College of the Humanities for exclusivity over its name. It’s all a little bit childish really…
Schoolgirl Elly Nowell sent a scathing rejection letter to Magdalen College, Oxford, criticising its interview procedure for being elitist and intimidating. We look more closely at the details of her complaint.
Nearly half of all university academic staff in the UK are female, so why do women hold fewer than 1 in 5 of the most senior academic posts? We investigate the truth behind this shocking statistic.
