Adaptive thinking
Dame Julia King’s illustration of restructuring student learning around “universal challenges” such as climate change (“Climate change will take all our expertise”, Opinion, 29 October) reveals both...
Dame Julia King’s illustration of restructuring student learning around “universal challenges” such as climate change (“Climate change will take all our expertise”, Opinion, 29 October) reveals both...
Re your feature on private higher education in Africa (“A ‘teaching shop’ on every corner”, 22 October). As a veteran educationalist in Africa, I fully agree with the statement by Adebayo Olukoshi...
We hear that David Cameron has asked Ucas to make university applications “name-blind” to avoid bias against black students (“On improving diversity, the sector has a clear choice: lead or be led”,...
Lara Cook, in her laudatory review of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Books, 29 October), states that Stalin’s team “even into the 1930s,...

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