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Academic research on levelling up calls for greater inclusion for small and modern universities

Today’s papers are likely to be more concerned with prime minister Boris Johnson’s birthday celebrations than with the government’s levelling-up white paper—which has joined the ranks of delayed government policy initiatives—and its implications for universities.

If there is a higher education angle to be found in the latest ‘partygate’ reports, it might be that the working environment in Downing Street seems to have considerably more in common with freshers’ week than anyone realised.