Providing skills, creating opportunity and training the teachers and nurses the UK needs: modern universities stand ready to deliver, says Rachel Hewitt
We should not deprive numerous hard-pressed students of valuable flexibility merely to ensure that the ‘undeserving’ don’t skip classes, say five experts
A new government interested in solutions not dogma should be fertile ground for those with ideas to sow – but there will be limits on blue-sky thinking
One of the advantages of a large majority is that there is more generous political cover for experts brought into ministerial roles, says David Willetts