03/12/2025 - 12:00am

Aptitude tests are making us stupid They encourage workplace conservatism

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

01.06

The Oxford kids are alright Students aren't the source of the culture wars — they're the solution

Kathleen Stock

09.08

Lessons in lockdown from a psychiatric ward A re-issued memoir from the sixties feels eerily familiar

Frances Wilson

03.06

Why I had a baby at university Becoming a mother is the worst thing you can do as a woman in academia

Sarah Ditum

13.11

The Left’s lost decade Ten years ago, when Tory HQ was stormed, a new political faction was born

Tobias Phibbs

30.09

There is no student mental health crisis Depression and anxiety have become status symbols — while sadness and loneliness are taboo

Louise Perry

29.09

Are graduates doomed? University leavers face uncertainty that may blight their entire professional careers

James Bloodworth

25.09

Why Covid can’t cancel Christmas There is much to be gained by knocking out of all the cheap commercial cheer

Giles Fraser

04.02

Have we been played by China? We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy

James Kirkup

13.11

Could national service save higher education? Undergraduates would be tougher and less entitled — and access would be fairer

Mary Harrington