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Traditional degrees failing to prepare young people for work and UK needs more technical universities, new report finds

19 October 2026 at 22:00

The report - backed by former Labour education secretary Lord David Blunkett and entrepreneur and inventor Sir James Dyson - said that traditional three-year degrees have ‘not delivered the skills that the modern economy needs’

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ITV’s exposé of racism and misogyny in Reform? Just a few (more) bad apples | John Crace

19 October 2026 at 18:42

While the party’s MPs went into hiding, it was left to its failed byelection candidate Matt Goodwin to defend it

It was the dog that didn’t bark in the night. After Sunday night’s ITV exposé of widespread racism and misogyny within Reform, you might have expected one of its MPs to have taken to the airwaves on Monday morning to defend the party’s honour. To try to persuade viewers that the real problem lay with the journalists who couldn’t stop themselves from investigating Reform rather than the fact that the party’s bigotry was endemic.

Instead, we got nothing. Every Reform MP was otherwise engaged. Were too busy having breakfast. Nothing from Nigel Farage. Nothing even from Robert Jenrick. Maybe he realised he had crashed and burned a few days earlier by suggesting it was just one of those things. One of life’s little mysteries. The BBC was riddled with paedophiles and Reform was awash with racists, said Honest Bob. No big deal. Every organisation had its crosses to bear.

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© Photograph: Mark Waugh/The Guardian

© Photograph: Mark Waugh/The Guardian

© Photograph: Mark Waugh/The Guardian

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