The advertising industry has a diversity problem – apprenticeships can help
It’s really important that our workforce reflects the kind of people that we’re advertising to, says Sue Frogley, UK chief executive of Publicis MediaIam always very transparent about the reason we started thinking...
Award-winning teacher among staff needing charity to scrape by
Teacher poverty is now so acute that the Victorian charity helping them is running on its reservesIt was winning a national Teaching Award and getting a pay rise in recognition of her outstanding work that,...
Ruskin at 120: has the workers’ college lost its way?
The alma mater of John Prescott once offered workers an Oxford degree – and a future. Now its vision has changedIan Tugwell left school at 14 and was making false teeth as a...
Oxbridge needs student quotas to end its role in the ‘chumocracy’
Oxford and Cambridge are too good and too important to be allowed to remain in the middle agesNews that Oxford and Cambridge cut the number of UK undergraduates over the past 10 years – when...
Levels of distress and illness among students in UK ‘alarmingly high’
Largest-ever mental health poll of universities ‘an urgent call to action’, say researchersA poll of almost 38,000 UK students suggests rates of psychological distress and illness are on the rise in universities, with “alarmingly high”...
An LGBT education would have spared me years of misery
Alan Clark says LGBT education should be mandatory in all schools. Jill Wallis thinks sex education is both a right and a boonSimon Jenkins agonises about the implications of LGBT education on parents, teachers and even...
Birmingham school stops LGBT lessons after parents protest
Hundreds of children withdrawn from Parkfield community school for dayA primary school that taught pupils about homosexuality as part of a programme to challenge homophobia has stopped the lessons after hundreds of children were...
Britain’s battle to get to grips with literacy is laid bare in H is...
New documentary reveals difficulties facing white, working-class boysLife repeats itself, Grant says dejectedly. “It’s just repeat, repeat, repeat. I had it, my dad had it, and now my son’s going to have it.”...
Surge in demand for schools leaves councils struggling to cope
Thousands of pupils in England denied place at their preferred secondary schoolCouncils across England are struggling to keep pace with rising numbers of applications for secondary school, leaving thousands of pupils without a place...
Breakthrough for NHS as hundreds more men study nursing
Numbers of males – especially school-leavers – wanting to get on college courses are the highest in a decadeThe NHS has seen a significant rise in the number of men applying to be nurses, following a...
