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Pupils are well behaved, survey finds

A study of the views of more than 3,500 Scottish teachers has found that violence and indiscipline in the classroom is rare

Good schools add £20,000 to house prices

Schools where every 11-year-old gets a level 4 in their Sats exams lift local house prices by 11 per cent, survey finds

Universities warned to expect heavy cuts

Higher education funding chief says fields for research funding will become limited and money for teaching scaled back

Undergraduate drinking ‘an occasional novelty’

If you want to see proper Olympic-standard drinking, book a flight to Kos where the carnage is anything but contrived

Balls’ warning over ‘creationism in schools’

Ed Balls claims that Tory plans to scrap National Curriculum controls could see creationism taught as science in schools

Review of teacher training ordered

Scotland's chief schools inspector is ordered to undertake an ‘open and inclusive’ review of teacher training

Evolution to be compulsory in primary schools

Campaigners delighted by government decision but faith schools will be able to adapt requirement to reflect their ethos

‘Obama effect’ pushes British pupils to US

Record numbers of teenagers will begin studying in America this autumn, in an exodus boosted by the President’s election

‘Oxford’s application process was negative’

Felix Cook turned down a place at Trinity College in order to take a four-year liberal arts degree at Harvard University

Over-subscribed colleges face budget shortfall

The recession has meant that colleges are taking on hundreds more students and are struggling to cope with the numbers wanting a place

End in sight for school tables based on test results

National curriculum tests for 11-year-olds could go after Government agrees to publish teacher-assessed results from 2011

Oxbridge ‘should recruit poorer students’

Britain’s top two universities should copy the Ivy League in an effort to change their social make-up, a report says

Heads attack Curriculum for Excellence

Views of experienced teachers over changes to curriculum are being ignored, School Leaders Scotland conference told

Ofsted pupil safety rules impossible, say heads

Under a new inspection regime schools are being penalised for the smallest glitch in safety procedures, head teachers insist

Fettes expels four over cannabis use

Fifteen pupils have been suspended and four expelled from Fettes College after they were found to have taken cannabis

Schools 'failing the brighter pupils'

A head teacher has warned that too much focus is being directed towards improving the grades of average students

Poor teens to get high flying mentors

Hundreds of sixth-formers from deprived backgrounds matched with young mentors to learn to compete for university