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Lower Intermediate: Telescope hit by broadband problems
$45million telescope in South Africa fails to connect to the internet
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Lower Intermediate: Fugitive’s Facebook habit leads to arrest
Police catch fugitive in Mexico throughhis regular facebook posts
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Advanced: Buzzing flies herald global warming on Everest
House fly found on Everest signals onset of global warming in Himalayas
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Lower Intermediate: Clinic for internet addicts opens in US
Centre to treat internet addicts opens in Seattle
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Advanced: Pakistan youth learn how to rock in defiance of Taliban
Guitar school in Lahore encourages Pakistani youth to turn to music
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Advanced: Alexandria library serves up wrong food for thought
Controversy over decision to build food court in Egypt's newest library
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Advanced: How lottery dreams can turn deadly
Research shows that 'positive income shock' can have long term health impacts
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Sharp fall in public services productivity
Extra spending in Gordon Brown's first full year as prime minister failed to prevent dip in outputs, official figures showProductivity of public services dipped sharply in 2008 despite a spurt of...
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Ministers urged to tighten home ed law
Review concludes that lack of focus on children's welfare was partly to blame for seven-year-old's death by starvationMinisters must urgently review the law on home education to prevent further...
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Don Headey obituary
Our father, Don Headey, who has died aged 88, packed enough interests for 10 people into his life. Beekeeping, organic gardening, scouting, puppetry and pottery were a few of them, all underpinned by...
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Sir Frederick Warner
Engineer and leading authority on nuclear and chemical safetyThe chemical engineer Sir Frederick Warner, who has died aged 100, was internationally renowned for his pioneering work in building chemical...
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Carola Hicks obituary
Art historian and biographer, her work infused large, iconic subjects with new lifeCarola Hicks, who has died of cancer aged 68, was a glamorous academic and a serious populariser of art. She created...
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Bloemfontein students admit humiliating black campus staff
It was meant to be a satirical look at racial integration, but a South African student film gained notoriety on the web for the way black staff were treatedFour white former students in South Africa...
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Letters: Learning curve on the academies bill
Like the House of Commons itself, Julian Glover has taken too little time scrutinising the academies bill (The left reacts to Gove's bill like a childhood nightmare, 26 July). It is not a minimal piece...
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'Rich thick kids' achieve more than poor clever ones – Gove
Education secretary tells MPs he had to act fast on academies because of huge gap in attainmentInequality in Britain is so entrenched that "rich, thick kids" achieve more than their "poor, clever"...
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Education editor fights redundancy offer
The Independent has asked its long-standing, award-winning education editor Lucy Hodges to leave.She has refused to accept a redundancy offer and has been backed by the National Union of Journalists'...
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Taxpayer pays £15m a year to send diplomats' children to private schools
Subsidies, sometimes costing as much as £30,000 a year in school fees, being paid by Foreign Office even when diplomats have returned to UKThe taxpayer is spending more than £15m a year to send the...
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Goldman blocks worker from leading financial crisis walking tours
Everybody's favourite Wall Street bank, Goldman Sachs, has suffered a sharp sense of humour failure about a worker in its graphics department leading tourists on credit crunch-themed walks around...
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Home education: precious, not dangerous | Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison
The case of Khyra Ishaq was tragic. But to blame home education would be naive and destructiveThe idea that child abuse can be thwarted by tightening laws about home education has been around for some...
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Journalistic blogging is fair, balanced and ethical
I have been taken to task for a posting I put up here eight days ago on an article by Cardiff University's Andy Williams about the state of the newspapers run by Media Wales, a division of Trinity...
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