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20 March 1911: A republic of letters
The Guardian argues against a caste system in educationThe 1902 Education Act created Local Education Authorities, responsible for the educational needs of their area. The 1907 Education Act introduced...
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Stressed students seek help in record numbers
GPs and mental health charities report surge in demand in last year before tuition fee ceiling rises to £9,000Unprecedented numbers of A-level students are seeking medical or psychological help to cope...
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Teenagers feel they face impossible task to get university places
A-level students talk of panic when faced with the pressure of achieving good resultsI feel a little queasy as I walk into Queen Mary's sixth-form college in Basingstoke, with its signs at the end of...
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Women and the coalition: education
Aside from David Willetts's comments that 'feminism trumped egalitarianism', there are concerns about cuts to EsolEven before Ken Clarke's remarks on rape, universities minister David Willetts had made...
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Etonians flood into Who's Who - the guide to Britain's establishment
More Old Etonians have entered Who's Who this year than in any year since 1997, according to researchThe return of the Conservative party to government has been accompanied by a resurgence in the...
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Who's who in Who's Who?
Is the establishment getting even more elitist? See what our analysis of Who's Who really shows• Get the dataIs getting on in Britain becoming more about Oxbridge and elitism? And how do you quanitfy...
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Affiliate marketing: hard but lucrative
Virtual, third-party sales offer university leavers hope in a moribund jobs marketThe promise of riches reaped from your armchair are generally to be found on dodgy-looking flyers taped to lampposts....
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Inside Bangladesh's madrasas | Tahmima Anam
Bangladesh's madrasas are viewed with suspicion for their links with militant Islam. So what kind of schooling do they offer girls? Tahmima Anam entered their secretive world to find outI've navigated...
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How can we corral data to reveal the big picture? | Ben Goldacre
Belief systems are backed by a variety of research but it's not nuggets of information we need but rather a view of the wholeHere's no surprise: beliefs that we imagine to be rational are bound up in...
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Bidisha's thought for the day: CCTV
Students should complain that installing CCTV in their schools makes them feel like they're in jailAggrieved students who complain that school feels like a prison are spot on. A secondary school in...
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From the archive, 21 May 1957: Arithmetic for business men
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 21 May 1957The war to sell arithmetic being waged between the major manufacturers of electronic digital computers will reach a new fever this...
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Children growing weaker as computers replace outdoor activity
Modern life is 'producing a generation of weaklings', claims research as physical strength declines in 10-year-oldsChildren are becoming weaker, less muscular and unable to do physical tasks that...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Lloyd Webber sets up scholarships to help future stars of...
Composer and theatrical producer behind Cats and Evita to pay for 30 young actors, singers and dancers to studyIn an attempt to raise standards in West End musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber has pledged to...
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Children with internet access at home gain exam advantage, charity says
The e-Learning Foundation says pupils whose families have a computer are likely to achieve a higher gradeA million children's exam results will be on average a grade lower than their peers this year...
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Open science: a future shaped by shared experience
Mapping the human genome showed how the internet can play a vital part in collective scientific research. Now more scientists are collaborating – and inviting amateurs and colleagues from other...
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Bafta TV special/Miranda Hart: Heart to Hart
She's the undisputed comedy queen of the small screen. But what's Miranda Hart like in real life? Does she fall over as much? Does she have so many tiny friends? Here, she talks about class, looking...
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Black students say they feel left out by 'white cliques' at universities
Bias against foreign-sounding names can cost marks, warns NUS, which wants coursework to be submitted anonymouslyUniversity coursework should be marked anonymously to deal with concerns that potential...
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Risk to UK universities posed by private sector is being ignored, say critics
World-class reputation of UK higher education at risk from proposals for commercially run colleges, warns funding reportMinisters have been accused of ignoring a damning report highlighting the threat...
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John Grenville obituary
Holocaust refugee who became an eminent historian in BritainJohn Grenville, who has died aged 83, was a distinguished historian of the modern world. While dispassionate in his scholarly judgment, he...
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The fashion briefing
Iris Apfel rocks the tunic-and-trousers look, plus where to go to find the fashion of the futureSimon Chilvers
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