The tuition fees generation is finding its voice in parliament
Gaby Hinsliff
Westminster’s newest recruits are now in a position to challenge older MPs who benefited from a free education, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
November 2019
Universities have driven their workers into the ground. That’s why I’m striking
Amelia Horgan
Universities have prioritised profit over and students the welfare of their staff. Enough is enough, says Amelia Horgan of the University of Essex
June 2019
Universities condemn ‘catastrophic’ plan to link fees to graduate pay
Academics say Augar proposals could damage arts degrees and lose Britain its creative edge
The Augar report pits arts against sciences – and both lose out
Simon Marginson
Cutting fees for arts and humanities degrees would damage Stem subjects too
The Augar report on higher education has a sting in its tail
Jonathan Wolff
The proposals are significantly regressive, increasing total payments made by lower earners, such as teachers and nurses
May 2019
Analysing the purpose and value of universities
Letters: Readers debate course structure, tuition fees, mental health, the importance of arts and humanities, and the need to work for a common good
March 2019
Securing a future for humanities: the clue is in the name
Letters: Prof Joe Smith, director of the Royal Geographical Society, Prof Sir David Cannadine, president of the British Academy, and Prof Norman Gowar respond to a Guardian editorial
The Guardian view on humanities degrees: art for society’s sake
Editorial: To reduce tuition fees while providing top-up grants only for sciences would distort higher education. We need history, poetry and French as well as Stem subjects
A university place for all is the way to abolish tuition fees
Nick Hillman
If higher education had comprehensive coverage like state schools, arguments for taxpayer funding could triumph
January 2019
Cut tuition fees and you shut the door to poor students
Anne-Marie Canning
Cutting tuition fees won’t help poorer students – reduce interest rates instead
David Blunkett
Student loan ban: some universities could lose a third of their intake
Cutting tuition fees will turn universities into vassals of the state
Simon Jenkins
University chiefs angry over ‘elitist’ student loan plans
The Observer view on a graduate tax being the fairest way to pay for university
December 2018
Tuition fees undid Paddy Ashdown’s achievements
Who’s the minister who could kill or save a university? Oh dear, a Thatcherite
Peter Scott
Social mobility tsar warns cuts to tuition fees may not help poorest students
‘An education arms race’: inside the ultra-competitive world of private tutoring
November 2018
Time to call the non-EU doctor
Letters: Alison Garnham isdistressed about Brexit and the ‘hostile environment’ policy. Prof Peter Ekkehard Kopp addresses immigration panic
