News Round-Up
6 May 2025
The Green Blob Won’t Take This Lying Down
6 May 2025
by Ben Pile
Keir Starmer has claimed Labour's policy of slapping 20% VAT on private schooling will raise £1.7bn in tax revenue. But no evidence supports that claim because it fails to allow for pupils leaving for the state sector.
U.K. universities offering 'woke' master's degrees have fuelled concerns over the exploitation of immigration loopholes, prompting calls for stricter regulations to reduce net migration levels.
Too many students regret life-long debts as a consequence of often worthless degrees at institutions that pay their senior managers up to £700,000 a year. But there is a better way, says Mark Ellse.
The Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, has said she cannot rule out Covid-style school closures in the future as you "would have to deal with what you were dealing with".
An academic who has criticised the teaching of “white privilege” in schools has been no-platformed from an education conference over claims she would make other speakers feel “unsafe”.
There is an aspect of higher education that one never hears spoken – the cost of frittering away the productive working time of the young, an invisible drain on our society far larger than the direct costs of education.
Rampant grade inflation means that today’s students are the ‘participation medal’ generation. Until something’s done to rescue academic standards, their grades will become increasingly meaningless.
A teacher writes that his school has become little more than a woke indoctrination factory focused on churning out identikit Left-wing activists. But the incessant alarmism is taking a toll on their mental health.
Educations ruined by Covid lockdowns will impact the world for years, the IMF has warned, as it said the outlook for the global economy is the "bleakest" it has been in decades.
A strikes leaflet from the University and College Union has a glaring spelling error – and that just sums up everything that's wrong with higher education, says Busqueros.
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