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Michael Gove approves nine free schools
Education secretary has now given the go-ahead to a total of 25 projects founded by parents and teachersEducation secretary Michael Gove today backed nine applications to open "free schools", bringing...
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Gems chief executive Zenna Atkins quits after just seven weeks
Atkins took up her post at the head of the world's biggest private education provider less than two months agoThe world's biggest private education provider – Gems – has lost one of its leading...
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Sorry, students, but you're low in the pain pecking order | Polly Toynbee
The demonstration next week should be about those whose life chances will be wrecked long before universityA student demo is marching through London on Wednesday protesting at university cuts and the...
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Graduate careers: How to tap into your inner entrepreneur
Graduates can take advantage of a raft of initiatives to equip them with business skills, and help them set up on their ownIt should be a happy coincidence that a record number of bright graduates have...
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Lucy Mangan: University challenge
I'm glad I went to university years ago. If I were doing UCAS now, the only way I could stand out from the crowd would be by telling the truth. And that wouldn't be cleverOh hell, is it that time of...
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Our school application nightmare
Last week was the deadline for secondary school applications. Julia Voss bemoans a confusing, frustrating and corporate process that has been reduced to a timeshare sales pitchForty years ago, I left...
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State boosts pensions at private schools
More than 62,000 teachers at independent schools enjoy more cash when they retire, costing taxpayers millionsMillions of pounds of public money is being spent subsidising the pensions of teachers at...
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The source of Jewish tradition | Mordechai Beck
A new translation of the Babylonian Talmud has brought this pillar of Jewish education into the modern eraOn Sunday 7 November a worldwide celebration will take place for one of the most arcane books...
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Students are revolting – and about time too | Barbara Ellen
This week's protests about the rise in tuition fees are long overdueThere's to be a national student demo through London on Wednesday about fees and cuts. Finally. Hallelujah. I've been wondering why...
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Shocking news from Oxford: you can't play a flute with your bottom
Musicologists in Oxford have made exact replicas of instruments featured in the The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. And, apparently, they sound 'horrible'Are you familiar with the...
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Scrap tuition fees? Yes we have | John Hemming
The coalition proposals amount to a graduate tax. This is the fairer system pledged by the Liberal DemocratsLiberal Democrats in government are about to scrap student tuition fees for 54.2% of...
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UK students reluctant to study abroad
Britain's economic future could be jeopardised unless more students embrace overseas experience, says studyFewer than one in every 200 of the UK's university students spend part of their degree in...
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Children need parenting classes to break poverty cycle - Frank Field
Former Labour minister prepares review on 'how to prevent poor children becoming poor adults'The coalition's poverty adviser, Frank Field, will call for all children to be given parenting classes at...
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Schools that go it alone do best – report
• Supportive heads and good teachers aid pupils most• Reform thinktank also calls for more 'free schools'The most successful schools ignore government advice and set their own standards for effective...
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Letters: Education should be a right, not a privilege
If only Polly Toynbee had cared to read up on the reasons we will march on the streets of London on Wednesday (10 November) before pouring misplaced scorn on us, she would have discovered that...
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Cribsheet daily: rounding up the news
Marching students: are they revolting?Polly Toynbee has caused ructions with her piece about students being selfish for demonstrating against tuition fees. Her thought-provoking article argued:"There...
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Byker Grove youth club to become an Islamic school
Benwell Tower, built in the 13th century, had been a fire station, pub and nightclub before becoming the set of BBC soap operaThe former TV soap set of Byker Grove is to house an Islamic school and...
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Ali Smith on Paul Cézanne: The truth about green
The novelist describes being 'mugged by life', abetted by Cézanne's The Etang des Soeurs, Osny
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Vote now: Should students march against an increase in tuition fees?
A protest has been planned for Wednesday. But are students right to march? Vote in our poll
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Tuition fees: we need a constructive debate, not protests
The new fees will improve the higher education sector, argues Paul WellingsJust over a week ago, the American comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear....
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