Give postgraduate scholarships to those who need them most Distributing financial aid based on identity or academic attainment leaves many poor people excluded from the academy, says Ryan Coogan By Ryan Coogan 10 December
A working-class accent in academia is a blessing and a curse Colleagues may judge those with regional accents more harshly, but poorer students respond to lecturers from similar backgrounds, says Ryan Coogan By Ryan Coogan 27 November
Being working class in the academy While widening access is high on universities’ agendas at undergraduate level, class barriers still prevail in the academy. Here, five working-class scholars describe their experiences of ‘otherness’ By Paul W. Craddock 25 October
Facts are just the start of the debate Right-wing intellectuals who fetishise ‘facts’ frustrate rather than further intellectual debate, says Ryan Coogan By Ryan Coogan 1 October
Not for you: what ‘experts’ debate tells the working class The ‘university-educated expert’ v ‘common man’ conflict cements the notion that higher study is not for the poor, says Ryan Coogan By Ryan Coogan 4 August
