Education

As the memoir of Jason Arday is published this week, Clive Hedges argues that the row over his PhD was never really about plagiarism – it was about who higher education lets in and how quickly it turns on them.

The developing crisis in higher education has been little covered by most of the media and, it has to be said, largely ignored by the UK left. Clive Hedges sets the record straight below and exposes a broken system in dire need of radical revision.