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Universities warned to expect heavy cuts

Sir Alan Langlands says that fields for research funding will become limited and money for teaching will be scaled back

Review of teacher training ordered

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

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

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

Heads attack Curriculum for Excellence

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

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

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

Rector of Imperial College stands down

Sir Roy Anderson, former chief scientific advisor to the MoD, said that he was leaving to concentrate on his research

More clues in questions increase pressure

Viewers of University Challenge may find it more enjoyable with more clues but the players may have to gamble and then lose points

'Beauty does not cancel out brains in girls'

Cambridge undergraduates who posed in their underwear for an online magazine have been defended by headmistress Jill Berry

Time to put pole dancing on the curriculum?

The president of the Girls' Schools Association thinks cheerleading is a sport. "It involves gymnastics and dance." So does poledancing.

Private schools offer discounts to attract pupils

Independent schools are struggling in the recession with increasing numbers suffering a fall in pupils, research shows toda