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Cribsheet 16.06.11
Gove speaks, a nation yawnsFasten your seatbelts and brace for a U-turn: Michael Gove's making policy again. Shifting his focus from secondary schools, he's decided the country's weakest 200 primary...
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Why I will be studying at a US university
One student starting at Princeton this autumn says it was the incredible facilities at the Ivy League university that clinched her decision Alexandra Morton, 18, has turned down offers from four top UK...
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Legal 'near-sourcing' threatens to widen status gap between London and...
Corporate law firms are creating two tiers of lawyers by using cheaper labour to expand outside the capitalIt's not just the BBC moving north. The big corporate law firms that have accounted for much...
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A brilliant way to celebrate Universities Week
I'm a Scientist Get Me Out of Here showcases the brains, passion and humble curiosity of our academicsIt's Universities Week, highlighting the impact higher education institutions have on UK...
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Can Canada really be scared of free-thinking? | William Ayers
It's a question I have to ask after being denied entry again – this time, ironically, to give a paper on academics and public debateIn January this year, I was invited by the Ontario Confederation of...
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Tony Abrahams obituary
My father, Tony Abrahams, who has died aged 87, dedicated his life to education. He founded four language schools; helped to create Seaspeak, the international language of the sea; was chairman of...
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Academy plan hit as council funding mistakes revealed
Speaker orders minister to explain reports of errors which led to some councils being overfunded by £300 per pupilThe ambitious plan by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to announce a fresh wave...
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Letters: Public servants have no choice but to strike
Simon Jenkins (Unions can't resist the call to arms. But who'll get hurt?, 15 June) writes of "a two-year pay freeze from next April", when in fact local government workers across England and Wales are...
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Letters: Climate curriculum
There is a vital distinction between what the national curriculum should prescribe as core scientific knowledge and the vast range of issues that can and should be discussed in schools that need not be...
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Cribsheet 17.06.11
A-grade inflation hits new heights, and primary schools forced towards academy statusSince when was an A-grade not an A? When it became an A*. And now, even that must step aside for the "A* with...
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School ban on cornrow braids is ruled racial discrimination
Boy's family wins case in high court against Harrow college that bans 'gang-related' hairstylesA school's anti-gang ban on unconventional hairstyles has resulted in "unlawful, indirect racial...
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Don McPhee photography collection goes on display in Liverpool
You Have What I Saw, an exhibition of photographs by Don McPhee, has opened at the Cornerstone Gallery in Liverpool
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Cambridge university chancellor race gets tasty as grocer joins in
Abdul Arain makes the ballot and will battle Brian Blessed, Lord Sainsbury and Michael Mansfield for the prestigious roleAs Prince Philip divests himself of the role of Cambridge University chancellor,...
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Claudia Schiffer turns designer and puts her school-run style on sale
The model and mother, often compared to Stella McCartney and Elle Macpherson, will be selling her high-end knitwear from AugustOnce, dropping the kids off in the morning was simple. Then along came...
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School's ban on boy's cornrows is 'indirect racial discrimination'
High court rules against London secondary school after boy was refused entry for breaching ban on 'gang-related' hairstylesAn 11-year-old boy who was turned away on his first day at secondary school...
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Tuition fees increase could spell return of polytechnics
Plan to let cheaper colleges recruit more students as demand grows for vocational qualificationsColleges charging less than £6,000 a year in tuition fees will be free to recruit more students under...
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Letters: Measuring up Gove's GCSE yardstick
Your story about Michael Gove's demand that schools raise the bar on GCSE results includes a suggestion that this target will be the yardstick against which the secretary of state's success will be...
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Letters: Setting a course for the survival of PS Waverley and SS Shieldhall
Those of us at the sharp end of keeping the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, PS Waverley, in operation, have been heartened by your editorial piece (In praise of… PS Waverley, 16 June).The ship is...
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Letter: Inspired by Anne and Otto Frank
I read with great interest, and some emotion, your item from the Guardian archive (15 June) about Otto Frank coming to London in 1971 to collect a literary award. Around the same time he also met Bee...
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Graduate careers: EU changes pave way for new healthcare roles
Physicians' assistant jobs are an alternative for those interested in healthcare but who don't want to become a doctorThe European Commission clampdown on doctors' working hours has opened a new career...
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