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Only half reach grade C in GCSE maths Record numbers of pupils have passed their GCSEs, but more than 40 per cent of all candidates are still failing to achieve grades A to C in core...
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Yale student missing in South Africa South African police are searching for a Yale University student who has been missing for three weeks after finishing a Zulu language course at the University of...
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Clarke bids for university vote Conservative leadership candidate Kenneth Clarke this week promised a compact between the state and universities. His personal manifesto to Tory members said: “I want...
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From today's UK papers
Independent After years of despair over their academic development, boys will narrow the gap with girls in top-grade GCSE success for the first time in the exam's 13-year history, according to...
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Jailed students die in Eritrea Two University of Asmara students held in Eritrean government detention with about 2,000 others in temperatures of up to 49C have died in the past week. The students...
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Randall quits as QAA chief John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, has announced his resignation. He was known to be furious that he had been bounced by ministers and...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph A BBC documentary that has genetically tested 2,500 British men for traces of Viking DNA has concluded that the Dark Age raiders left behind far more than burnt villages and murdered...
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Alexander launches Glasgow 'culture campus' Wendy Alexander, Scotland’s minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, today opened the £6 million first phase of a £16 million “cultural campus” in...
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Violent clash closes Sudan campus Students at the University of Sudan in Khartoum have been ordered off campus following a violent confrontation between radical Islamic and pro-...
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From today's UK papers
Independent The government is set to step up its campaign to increase the number of children from poorer homes going to university. More girls are to be encouraged to take science and technology A...
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A-level horde prompts calls for more cash
Opportunities have never been better for pupils seeking places in higher education, but the expected influx has prompted calls for more money for student support. The growth in the number of higher...
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NEWS How the other half lives: looking at the student experience for those who have money FEATURES Fred Pearce meets Bjorn Lomborg, the new scourge of the Greens, over a cup of Starbuck's coffee...
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For the record
Research council gets first female head Julia Goodfellow will be the first female head of a research council wheshe becomes chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
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AUT chiefs pipe up for merger
Grassroots leaders of the Association of University Teachers support a merger with rival lecturers' union Natfhe, according to a poll by The THES . But deep cultural divisions along the former binary...
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Students strive to stave off debt
Nearly two-thirds of students work during the academic year to make ends meet and stave off debt, according to a report. A small proportion of students' employment forms part of a structured work-...