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Let the dreaming spires dream afresh
An Oxford head of college presents a manifesto for a transformation of higher education – inspired both by the tough lessons of the pandemic and the potential for exciting change
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Autistic children deserve teachers trained to help them
They are routinely failed by our education system – but skilled, sensitive and early interventions make their lives radically better
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Tech companies could limit children’s access to porn. It’s high time they did
Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner, and the child advocate, Beeban Kidron, are amongst those leading the demand for action
Fending for themselves
How three women at Cambridge found themselves taking on what they call “vigilante justice”
Crisis in the colleges
Oxford’s medieval structures create a particular problem with dealing with the assault and harassment crisis
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Universities: The China Problem
Universities in the UK rely heavily on students from China, and on Chinese money and academic collaborations. But does it all come at a price? A chipping away of academic freedoms and a gagging order on discussing sensitive issues? It’s a dilemma which brings the China problem much closer to home
Slow View
Let the dreaming spires dream afresh
An Oxford head of college presents a manifesto for a transformation of higher education – inspired both by the tough lessons of the pandemic and the potential for exciting change
Slow View
Autistic children deserve teachers trained to help them
They are routinely failed by our education system – but skilled, sensitive and early interventions make their lives radically better
Slow View
Tech companies could limit children’s access to porn. It’s high time they did
Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner, and the child advocate, Beeban Kidron, are amongst those leading the demand for action
Fending for themselves
How three women at Cambridge found themselves taking on what they call “vigilante justice”
Crisis in the colleges
Oxford’s medieval structures create a particular problem with dealing with the assault and harassment crisis
The campus crisis
Sexual harassment and abuse is one of the top issues for students – and one where universities are failing
What went wrong with education?
Young lives in lockdown
From classrooms to family courts, every part of the structure that protects children from harm has been upended. What has happened behind closed doors?
Safe space?
Making campuses covid-secure is a complex problem and good information is hard to find
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The Tortoise Education Summit
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MeToo Part Three: is rape culture rife in schools?
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Campus Injustice: are women safe on campus?
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Finding Covid’s lost children: how do we bring them back?
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How should universities pick students this year if no-one trusts exams?
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Future of Cities
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Britain and slavery: Who profited and what should they do now?
What should companies that profited from slavery do now to make amends? Our daily digital ThinkIns are exclusively for Tortoise members and their guests.Try Tortoise free for four weeks to unlock your complimentary tickets to all our digital ThinkIns.If you’re already a member and looking for your ThinkIn access code you can find it in the My Tortoise > My Membership section of the app next to ‘ThinkIn access code’.We’d love you to join us.In the early 1800s, Benjamin Greene was running his own brewery and managing of a number of sugar plantations in the West Indies. When the British government abolished slavery in 1833, he was paid the equivalent of almost £500,000 in today’s money to compensate him for the loss of his ‘property’ – that is, men, women and children who had been kept as slaves on the plantations. Greene’s brewery is now the highly successful Greene King brewery chain, just one of 43,000 UK companies – including several major banks – named on a database at University College London to have directly or indirectly benefited from these compensation payments. What can and should these companies do now to make amends?Editor: James Harding, Editor and Co-founder, TortoiseHow does a digital ThinkIn work?A digital ThinkIn is like a video conference, hosted by a Tortoise editor, that takes place at the advertised time of the event. Digital ThinkIns are new to Tortoise. Now that our newsroom has closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we feel it’s more important than ever that we ‘get together’ to talk about the world and what’s going on.The link to join the conversation will be emailed to you after you have registered for your ticket to attend. When you click the link, you enter the digital ThinkIn and can join a live conversation from wherever you are in the world. Doors open at 6:25pm for a welcome and briefing. Come early to get settled, meet the team and chat to other members. ThinkIn starts at 6:30pm. Members can enter their unique members’ access code to book tickets. Find yours in My Tortoise > My Membership in the Tortoise app.If you have any questions or get stuck, please read our FAQs, or get in touch with us at memberhelp@tortoisemedia.comRead our ThinkIn code of conduct here. What is a Tortoise ThinkIn?A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. It is a place where everyone has a seat at the (virtual) table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.
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Sensemaker Live – Uni in isolation: grin and bear it, or your money back?
Make sense of this week’s major news stories in a live editorial conference with Tortoise editors. Our daily digital ThinkIns are exclusively for Tortoise members and their guests.Try Tortoise free for four weeks to unlock your complimentary tickets to all our digital ThinkIns.If you’re already a member and looking for your ThinkIn access code you can find it in the My Tortoise > My Membership section of the app next to ‘ThinkIn access code’.We’d love you to join us.Tens of thousands of students are paying more than £9,000 a year for university tuition that so far is online if it’s happening at all. Having been urged to take up their places they are also at far greater risk than the general public of catching Covid. Covid is not their fault. Debts are no laughing matter. Don’t they deserve a refund?Editor: Giles Whittell, Editor and Partner, TortoiseOur invited experts include:David Kernohan is an Associate Editor of Wonkhe. He has also worked for the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales). He’s an expert in teaching quality enhancement policy, funding policy, sector agency politics and history, research policy, and the use of technology and data in Higher Education.Josh Sandiford is a Tortoise Student Ambassador, a third year politics student at The University of Manchester and the Deputy Editor of the student newspaper The Mancunion. How does a digital ThinkIn work?A digital ThinkIn is like a video conference, hosted by a Tortoise editor, that takes place at the advertised time of the event. Digital ThinkIns are new to Tortoise. Now that our newsroom has closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we feel it’s more important than ever that we ‘get together’ to talk about the world and what’s going on.The link to join the conversation will be emailed to you after you have registered for your ticket to attend. When you click the link, you enter the digital ThinkIn and can join a live conversation from wherever you are in the world. Members can enter their unique members’ access code to book tickets. Find yours in My Tortoise > My Membership in the Tortoise app.If you have any questions or get stuck, please read our FAQs, or get in touch with us at memberhelp@tortoisemedia.comRead our ThinkIn code of conduct here. What is a Tortoise ThinkIn?A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. It is a place where everyone has a seat at the (virtual) table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.