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Cribsheet 10.02.11
Willetts comes up with an Offa universities can't refuseDavid Willetts has taken to the airwaves this morning ahead of government guidelines on widening access to university. He admits that the Office...
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In the mood for love: Ed van der Elsken's Love on the Left Bank | Sean O'Hagan
The Dutch photographer's groundbreaking book – just reprinted – captures the birth of rebellious youth culture in 1950s Europe, blending reportage with seductive fantasySee a gallery of photographs...
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Video: Fleas' toes play a vital role in their amazing jumps
Fleas jump by releasing explosive energy that launches them into the air from their toes – not their knees as some had thought
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I loved our 'failing' school, flailing teacher realises
Fielding ponders the dizzying consequences of being Turned AroundI'm pedalling down the road and see a poster and nearly crash.It's of a huge mortarboard. An advert for St Custard's or Balliol or...
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Tax avoidance protesters turn their attention to Britain's banks
UK Uncut plans to mobilise thousands for day of action next week, timed to coincide with bonus seasonBritain's fastest-growing protest movement is to target scores of high street banks in the next...
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Former super-head is first to have damehood revoked
Jean Else, made a dame for services to education, is first woman to have title annulledOne of Labour's first school "super-heads" has become what is thought to be the first woman to have her damehood...
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Cuts disastrous for brain science research, academics warn
At least 30 neuroscience units to go under cuts proposed by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilThe closure of drug company research facilities and "draconian" funding cuts will have...
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Exeter University becomes the first outside Russell Group to charge maximum fees
Extra money 'needed to meet the higher expectations of students and fund places for the less well-off'Exeter has become the first university outside the Russell Group to announce that it will charge...
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Six to watch: TV teachers
As the bell rings for the start of Jamie's Dream School tonight, we go back to the classroom to find the best ever TV teachersHow I taught Latin at Jamie's Dream SchoolHe's taught people how to eat...
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Cribsheet 02.03.11
Exeter stakes its claimAnd so it grows. Exeter (led by Steve Smith, president of Universities UK) has announced it plans to charge the full £9,000 in student fees from 2012. And the chilling...
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Jamie Oliver's Dream School misses the vital ingredient: pupils | Dea Birkett
The government pushes parental choice, but unless children are on the side of any educational initiative, it will fail and so will theyTonight Jamie Oliver is serving up the first course of his menu...
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The Business podcast: Broken economic models and the role of emotion in finance
What lessons should economists take from the world financial crisis?According to two experts on this week's podcast, the answer lies in embracing uncertainty. They believe economic models overstate how...
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Grammar schools do not improve social mobility for working-class
Study shows little difference in work prospects for poorer children who attend grammar schools and comprehensivesWorking-class children are no more likely to move up the social ladder and hold a...
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Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and his movable type | Philip Oltermann
The resignation of a minister over PhD plagiarism reveals how much more Germany values academia than we doSome time around the year 1450, Johannes Gutenberg had a bright idea. In his workshop in Mainz,...
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David Cockayne obituary
Scientist who played a key role in the field of electron microscopyIn the late 1950s and 60s, pioneering advances were made in the study of the interior structures of crystals by passing high-energy...
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Bridget Crampton obituary
My friend Bridget Crampton, who has died aged 65, grew up in a council flat in Chelsea, south-west London, with her divorced mother, Mary. As a teenager, I loved visiting and sharing in their unusual...
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David Bradby obituary
A pioneer of theatre studies, he focused on the director as authorDavid Bradby, who has died of cancer aged 68, was one of the great pioneers of theatre studies in Britain. He introduced much of what...
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Vocational courses waste of time, says government adviser
Professor warns up to third of 16 to 19-year-olds on courses that do not lead to jobs or training schemesMore than 167,000 teenagers in England are wasting their time on college courses that will not...
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TV review: Jamie's Dream School
Forget the pupils, the real problem at Jamie's Dream School is the history teacher, David StarkeyThere's some very bad behaviour in the history class at Jamie's Dream School (Channel 4). Not from the...
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Sure Start cuts to hit poorest hardest
Well-off areas to lose around £30 per child on Sure Start schemes compared with £100 cuts in deprived districtsSome of Britain's most deprived areas will have budgets for key services such as Sure...
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