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Catholic school condemned over admissions

Cardinal Vaughan School told parts of its admission procedure are 'unlawful' and have the potential for racial discrimination

Private schools hindered by Whitehall rules

Endless government regulation and a tick-box culture is diverting teachers away from education, says top head teacher

Graduates move home to cut costs

Charlotte Andrews has a job earning £17,500 a year as a PR account assistant and pays £200 a month to her mother and father

University gets £1.26m donation to help with scanner

Ronald Storey, 82, has made the largest gift ever received by the University of Edinburgh, in order to help to fund medical imaging facilities

Briefing: University funding

The government is cutting funding for universities and capping student numbers. Is this the end of Labour’s higher-education dreams?

Private school pay rises 'will shock' parents

At a time of rising fees, the earnings of more than a dozen private school 'super-heads' have risen above £150,000 a year

‘Cuts could force universities to close’

Lord Mandelson said universities must save £135 million in the next academic year, as he cut £518 million from the budget

Universities ‘will become training machines’

Academic standards and students’ welfare are both at risk from funding cuts, explain a Leeds professor and a Sussex adviser

The charity that listens to youngsters

The drop-in counselling service The Place2Be is branching out to help children to adjust to life at secondary school

Huge cash cuts to hit teaching at universities

Lord Mandelson's plan to slash budgets by millions is described by academics as a 'kick in the teeth'

Fake places scandal college gets new licence

A Manchester college that sold fake places to hundreds of foreign nationals has been given the go-ahead to practise again

Extended school day will encourage learning

A state school with a ten-hour day, based on an American model, may boost the learning of pupils from poorer families

Pupils tune in to rap to study Shakespeare

Schools download specially written pop songs based on set texts in the GCSE curriculum to boost exam performance

‘Extended school improves life chances’

With classes from 8.30am to 4pm, King Solomon Academy believes that it has the longest day of any English state school

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