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English students face £6,500 fees in Scotland
Scottish ministers fear that tuition fee rises in England will increase the number of 'fee refugees' to ScotlandEnglish students could be charged as much as £6,500 a year to attend a Scottish...
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Letters: Dodgy doctorates
We have been delighted to hear from the coalition of its determination to root out unnecessary bureaucracy in public services and bring down costs. We were rather surprised recently, therefore, in our...
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Thousands of boys start secondary school 'barely able to read'
Nearly one in 10 boys reading well below expected standard, although data show overall improvementNearly 19,000 boys are starting secondary school with a reading age of a seven-year-old or below,...
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Boys and literacy: how many are struggling in each part of England?
One in ten boys in England are struggling with literacy, below level 3, according to the latest primary schools data. Find out what the figures are where you live• Get the dataNearly 19,000 boys are...
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Cribsheet 17.12.10
Getting to grips with words, and Merry ChristmasConcerning news today when it comes to boys and books. Research has found that thousands of boys start secondary school 'barely able to read'.Nearly one...
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How Dickens and Doré forecast our winter of discontent
Victorian artists depicted the horrors of inequality as no previous age had ever done. Their work is a warning to the coalition not to repeat the dark side of the 19th centuryWhen the scale and nature...
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Are school trips worth the expense?
A reader's son wants to go on an expensive school trip. Are they worth the seemingly inflated cost?Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it's up to you to help him or her out – a...
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The Right Word: Repeal healthcare or die | Sadhbh Walshe
Rush Limbaugh wants 'Obamacare' buried, but Laura Ingraham is choking on healthy food for kids, courtesy Michelle ObamaThe news that a key provision of the healthcare reform act has been ruled...
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Michael Gove backtracks over school sport funding
Key elements of School Sport Partnerships network will be retained despite education secretary's previous insistence they were not deliveringMichael Gove has been forced to backtrack on his plan to...
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Students: EMA is a necessity, not a bribe
Sixth-form pupils express anger at their media portrayal as 'goons'Helen Kassarate is an 18-year-old student at Brooke House sixth form college in east London, and she's not happy about the way...
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The death of universities | Terry Eagleton
Academia has become a servant of the status quo. Its malaise runs so much deeper than tuition feesAre the humanities about to disappear from our universities? The question is absurd. It would be like...
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Graduate careers: In-house training bucks IT jobs downturn
IT services provider FDM – one of the UK's largest graduate recruiters – is doubling the places in its academy to 1,000This is a grim time to be an IT graduate, with a 16% record unemployment in the...
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Would you have paid £27,000 for your degree?
As tuition fees head towards £9,000 a year, we ask some recent graduates and writers and celebrities if high charges would have deterred them from universityStudents are rebelling on the streets over...
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Lucy Mangan: The truth about school nativity plays
Yes, the kids are cute and all that, but there's something not quite right about the way we do them these daysMy seven-year-old goddaughter was enraged. Her teacher had told her off for talking to Emma...
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Letters: Protesters on the offensive over police handling of demos
We condemn Richard Littlejohn's offensive column on 14 December in the Daily Mail in which he ridicules the assault inflicted on Jody McIntyre by police officers at the student protests in London ('Why...
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Can you get a refund if university fails to deliver?
Increased tuition fees are likely to result in more students claiming compensation when courses are not up to standardCourses that are sub-standard, lecturers who don't turn up, supervision that...
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Letters: Tory society
Every day this week seems to have brought a new blow to our society. Monday: a little light legerdemain to "launch" the pupil premium fails – it's a reallocation of existing funds – a £2.5bn con....
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Brian Cox: why he made headlines in 2010
The face of TV science reflects on his new fameBrian Cox started this year feeling exhausted after finishing filming Wonders of the Solar System for the BBC, a process that had taken him on a tour of...
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Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? |...
Calling a nuclear security programme 'New Dawn' isn't going to improve the national moodNow, imagine you're running an elite branch of the police, responsible for the security of the country's nuclear...
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Special needs pupils account for seven in 10 permanent exclusions from school
Children with special educational needs just short of statement level most likely to face exclusionChildren who just miss out on obtaining a "statement" guaranteeing support for special educational...
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