Paul Mason
Has the policing of student protest become political?
Some students believe university authorities are using the police to crack down on dissent because they have lost the argument for the privatisation of education.
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FactCheck: Are young, black jobless worse off than white youths?
“Some people will be antagonised by any discussion of the fact that spiralling unemployment is hitting black people the hardest”, Diane Abbott wrote in today’s Guardian. And rightly so. But some people will be further antagonised by the possibility that Britain’s first black female MP may have got her facts wrong. Has she? FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck: Youth unemployment – how bad is it really?
Youth unemployment sailed past the million mark last month with much furore, prompting the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to wade into the waters with some perspective. FactCheck takes a look at the findings.
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FactCheck: What will replace the EMA?
The claim “We are not abolishing EMAs – we are replacing EMAs with something more effective.” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, December 15 2010
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'Violence inevitable at tuition fees protest'
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at how violence erupted at the student demonstration against tuition fees on 9 December 2010.
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Gary Gibbon
Universities charging below 6K ‘extremely unlikely’
The IFS has been number crunching the Tuition Fees announcement and pouring ice cold water over the government’s claim that universities will only charge more than £6,000 a year in tuition fees “in excpetional circumstances.”
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Gary Gibbon
University funding: coalition propose tuition fees cap
So tomorrow we get the government’s way ahead on university funding. The fundamental to remember is that they have massively, gigantically scaled back their own cash commitment to universities. They are proposing a way to fill the enormous black hole.