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Universities dismiss new top A-level as unfair

Leading universities are shunning the new A-level A* grade fearing it will affect the number of students they admit from state schools

Plan to let Forces head housing and school list

Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, said that he was studying plans for local authorities to put the military first

University governors resign after funding row

The former vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University may be sued over £36.5 million it overclaimed from public funds

Case Study: On screen exams

Students studying at Matthew Arnold school in Staines, Surrey, have taken one of their exams on-screen for the past three years

Screen tests are the future of exams

Pupils should stop writing answers with pen and paper and take tests conducted on computers, says Ofqual

Popular Jewish School broke race laws

JFS, formerly the Jewish Free School, rejected a boy because he was not a Jew according to rules set by Chief Rabbi

Schools told to improve on special needs

Ofsted is to be given new responsibilities after a two-year inquiry by Brian Lamb found that some children were being neglected

Vetting scheme climbdown after writer's complaints

Schools hail victory for common sense as Government cuts 2m from numbers required to register over contact with children

Academy pupils pushed to take vocational courses to boost results

Geography, history, single sciences and modern languages are disappearing at GCSE level in some academies

Academies freedom is being abused

Academies’ flexibility gives them the opportunity to really respond to the needs of their students but it's being abused

Author's success as vetting proposal dropped

The children's author led a campaign against the changes, which required writers who give talks in schools to register

200,000 to miss out on degree places

Record numbers of applicants will be left without places to study degrees because of cuts to funding for universities

Cuts leave universities needing to find £600m

Alistair Darling has said that universities must save £600 million, on top of £180 million in cuts ordered earlier this year

‘We’ll lose out,’ says university student

The University of Cumbria is closing its Lake District campus so mountaineering students will have to make do with farmland

Double-decker school bus crashes into bridge

Fourteen children aged between nine and ten and two adults suffered minor injuries after crash in fog

‘Talented pupils not being tested enough’

Teachers do not challenge gifted students because they think it detracts their attention from the rest of the class, says Ofsted

Safety laws 'threaten' school exchange trips

Head teachers criticise plans that require anyone who comes into contact with children to undergo a criminal check

Salmond ‘ripped up free school meal’ pledge

Opposition parties turned on the First Minister after it said free school meals could be sacrificed to cut class sizes

‘Transphobic’ bullying could be police matter

Pupils involved in bullying anyone who has changed gender could be expelled and their parents forced to attend counselling

School spending to beat inflation

Spending on schools will continue to increase while £600 million will be cut from Universities by 2012-13