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Rise in university applications slows amid fears about degree costs
Research reveals £9,000-a-year tuition fees would have deterred many current undergraduates from going to universityThe rapid increase in the number of young people applying to UK universities over the...
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Higher education: Mess in the marketplace | Editorial
Some students are finding that this is one market where the customer is always wrongSlowly but surely, the demand for university continues to grow. Amid tales of woe from unemployed graduates, and even...
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Letters: Education market is no solution
Jeevan Vasagar argues (Are degrees the new sub-prime bubble?, 26 April) that there is excessive demand for higher education and that a system where university places are funded according to graduates'...
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Tuition fees protest: injured student Alfie Meadows faces charge
Meadows – who had brain surgery after allegedly being hit by truncheon – charged with violent disorderA student who had to have brain surgery after he was allegedly hit by a truncheon during the...
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Education leaders should join those in health and social care to strengthen...
Health and wellbeing boards could provide a way for leaders of different services to work together to push through real transformation of public services, says Anita HighamShared visionary leadership...
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Cribsheet 27.04.11
A visit to blogland raises this question: do libraries need shushers?Quietish day except for Alison Wolf, author of a recent review of vocational education, giving evidence to MPs on the cross-party...
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Education in Africa: Where does the money go?
Public spending on education in Africa has been increasing annually according to a new report, but how is the money distributed?• Get the dataOver the last decade public spending on education in Africa...
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Did Holbein engineer a royal wedding?
In an age where kings would make marriage decisions based on the beauty of a portrait, artists had real political powerThe most infamous royal art commission in British history is Hans Holbein's...
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A threat to our right to protest | Nina Power
The Metropolitan police's crackdown on student protesters seems part of a wider attempt to suppress legitimate dissentIn what can only be described as a colossally misjudged act of PR, the Metropolitan...
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Ambrose Rigby obituary
Our friend, Ambrose Rigby, who has died suddenly aged 70, was a man of singular presence. Even when he was absent, no gathering of friends would transpire without some mention of his idiosyncrasy....
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Libya's links to the London School of Economics
The LSE is under scrutiny by Lord Woolf for accepting money from the Libyan regimeThe director of the LSE, Sir Howard Davies (right), quit last month after admitting that the institution's reputation...
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Syrian funding causes embarrassment at British university
University of St Andrews to review acceptance of funding arranged by Bashar al-Assad's controversial regime in DamascusA prestigious British university is to review the work of one of its academic...
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PFI projects not best value for money, says watchdog
National Audit Office urges government to find alternatives to private finance initiatives to fund major infrastructure projectsThe government's spending watchdog has issued its strongest health...
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Private schools suffer drop in pupils
Independent schools body blames falling numbers on recession, while average fees rise to £13,200The number of pupils at private schools has fallen for the second year running as the economic climate...
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Response: Our early-years research does not contradict the government
We do, though, show it's a myth that bright poor children lose their talent as they developAllegra Stratton discussed our research into the development of the cognitive skills of young children from...
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Theatre's survivors need life support
From creche facilities to flexible hours to national average pay, there's far more producers could provide to help jobbing thespsThe old maxim that you shouldn't become an actor, or indeed work in the...
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Cribsheet 28.04.11
Any chance of giving state schools some credit?Kicking off today with my favourite tweet, which comes in response to the news that the number of children going to private school has fallen for a second...
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Spare the state, spoil the child? | Randeep Ramesh
The coalition takes a Victorian approach to helping the poorest children – but there's more to inequality than acute child povertyThe news from the OECD, the rich world's thinktank, that progress on...
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How are schools celebrating the royal wedding?
With royal wedding parties, blinged-up bikes, mini-me brides and grooms, songs they've written themselves and loads of cake, that's howUp and down the land, schools are celebrating the royal wedding –...
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Pupil behaviour no better than satisfactory in fifth of secondaries
Schools minister Nick Gibb expresses concern over figures published by Department of EducationPupil behaviour is no better than satisfactory in almost a fifth of England's secondary schools, government...
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