Education
Time to tackle the postgraduate funding problem
Employers increasingly desire postgraduate level skills – evidenced by the widening 'postgraduate/first degree only' wage gap – and so should everybody else, says Tom FrostickTurkish population pulled between west and religious doctrine
Young people see themselves entrapped between western modernity and Recep Tayyip Erdogan's neo-Islamic and rather authoritarian policy – writes Professor Vassilis K. Fouskas
'We must defend the EU budget' - says commissioner
Only the EU budget provides investment opportunities and we must protect it for 500 million Europeans, 20 million SMEs, 100 million students and tens of thousands of researchers – argues European Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski
Claims EU is 'breathing life' into economy despite crisis
European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn offers an insight into how investment in cohesion policy is helping to weather the crisis and boost economic growthIt is 'fantasy' to think Britain can go it alone outside the EU
UK cannot go it alone in a globalised world and the cost of EU membership is 'marginal' when compared to £700bn annual government spend – argues former minister and erstwhile BP chief executive Lord SimonThe tragedy of malnutrition among children
Although child mortality is declining in developing countries, many young people are too unhealthy and badly educated to enter the workplace – argue Liam Crosby and Frazer GoodwinEven Europhiles starting to turn against the EU project
When College of Europe graduates - traditionally the most loyal of all Europhiles - start to turn against Brussels you know the project is coming off the rails, writes Justin Stares-
Despite progress in last 100 years, 'sexism' still rife
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The 'riddle of peacefulness': explaining falling UK crime?
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Hacking all over the world - global cyber-crime
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Leaders need to stop 'pandering to the banks' - Gabi Zimmer
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The argument against 'open door' immigration from UKIP
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EU failing to tackle Hungary's constitutional missteps
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Fostering shortfall puts vulnerable children at risk
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Should the EU challenge the US over its PRISM mass-spying programme and demand much greater data protection for its 500 million citizens?
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