Smash Hit

Head teachers given more powers under trusts plan

Lord heads team to look at raising tuition fees

Lord Browne of Madingley's group will have a broad remit to analyse the challenges for higher education and students

Queen’s English Society boss’s poor spelling

Bernard Lamb, the organisation's president, learnt to spell after the embarrassment of being corrected by a foreign student

Students face rise in fees and loan costs

An independent review of the funding of higher education, by Lord Browne of Madingley, will also look at student debt

Explorer wants to settle old score with bullies

Sir Ranulph Fiennes tells how his tormentors at Eton led him to think about suicide and how he still contemplates revenge

Academics’ fury over library name sell-off

Officials at Cambridge University are offering to alter the title of a venerable institution in exchange for funding

Jobless graduate tally to hit 100,000

The number of jobless university leavers is expected to break last year's barrier, heightening fears of a 'lost generation'

The child protection racket

Confusing and costly plans to vet people working with children or vulnerable adults face a growing backlash

Pupils given iPods to ‘improve learning’

The Essa Academy in Bolton offers the devices among changes that include a 3-D theatre and the first zero-carbon classroom

Brothers in business of discreet generosity

Self-made Essa Academy sponsors Anwar and Yakub Patel may be high on the rich lists but prefer to keep a low profile

Mandatory sex lessons for every 15-year-old

Announcement that sex education to be made compulsory prompts fury from faith groups who will oppose the move

Council used terror powers on school place mother

Jenny Paton has taken Poole Borough Council to court for spying on her family for three weeks over school application

Tories to give head teachers greater powers

Schools will be able to exclude children and higher standards will be expected from trainee teachers, says Michael Gove

For and against sex lessons

Teachers’ representative and Catholic blogger give their views on Ed Balls’ proposals to abolish parents’ opt-out

The curriculum through the years

What children will learn about sex in Personal, social, health and economic lessons

Lessons face legal challenge

Faith groups react with anger to proposals by Ed Balls to force all pupils to learn about sex before they are 16

Sex education to be compulsory under 16

Under new laws parents will lose their right to withdraw their children from sex education after they reach 15

Achievement reports for students may replace degree classifications

Certificates will detail grades in each module and even extra-curricular behaviour as employers complain about system

Bonus scandal head quits ahead of hearing

Sir Alan Davies, who was suspended in May from Copland Community School in Wembley, has escaped a disciplinary hearing