Lifelong learning can give agency back to students and universities

Sunderland and SOAS cuts expose market dangers, say scholars

Academics claim that, as well as impoverishing some institutions, removal of number controls has led to overcrowding at other institutions

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English regulator ‘will be proactive to stop university closures’

But Nicola Dandridge says that ‘to pile limited public resource into failing institution’ would be mistake

By John Morgan

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Lifelong learning can give agency back to students and universities

Recommendations set out in Labour’s lifelong learning report aim to make learning a universal right, explains Graeme Atherton

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