* Two academics from the University of Oxford have found that independent school students are 20 per cent more likely to be offered a place at the university than state school students. They made the...
A separate studyby the Warwick researchers strengthens the claim thatstudents from state schools are more likely to get a first than those from independent schools, all other things being equal, as...
Sixty per cent of 21-year-olds and 50 per cent of adults should possess at least 2 A levels, NVQ level 3, an Advanced GNVQ or the equivalent of one of these by 2002, the Department for Education and...
* Students across the country are today protesting against growing hardship and new tuition costs with the launch of the Student Rights Charter. The National Union of Students said hardship was now...
* The Heritage Lottery Fund this week announced 66 new grants totalling Pounds 32 million. This brings the number of projects backed by the fund to 2,188 with a combined value of Pounds 1.15 billion...
* Academics have attacked the inspection service Ofsted, saying that it leaves many schools so stressed that it takes them months to recover. Members of a team researching school inspections since...
* The Institute for Learning and Teaching will probably be based in York, the Standing Conference of Principals will hear next week. "We are anxious that the ILT is seen as a UK body, and York has...
* A new Pounds 9 million development of more than 400 en suite study bedrooms is to be built at the University of Plymouth in a partnership with Jarvis plc, a construction, property and facilities...
* Consumer goods firm Procter and Gamble this week donated Pounds 500,000 to Royal Holloway, University of London, to help build a Pounds 1.8 million sports complex at the college's Egham campus,...
* Stirling University students have voted to stay in the National Union of Students. More than a fifth of the university's students voted in the referendum and 73 per cent of these voted to stay in...
* St Andrews University has announced its "firm intention" to defend any action brought against it by former student Erin MacLean, who says she was raped while on an exchange course in the Ukraine in...
* Carlos Menem, president of Argentina, has today approved six new treaties with Britain to improve cooperation in science and education. They include a Pounds 2 million, ten-year Argentine studies...
* Male graduates are twice as likely to find themselves unemployed as females, a conference heard this week. Delegates at the Institute of Personnel and Development's annual gathering were told that...
* British workers at risk of redundancy may benefit from a Pounds 160 million European investment to help them retrain. Employment minister Andrew Smith revealed this week that Britain is well on the...
Biotechnology entrepreneur Chris Evans has warned that a fizzling out of the City's enthusiasm for science-based companies could slash the value of established biotechnology companies and new spin-...