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Curbing student visas will reduce 'unpleasant' abuses, says Green - 01 Feb 2011

Damian Green the immigration minister says reducing the numbers students coming to Britain from outside the EU will prevent students using bogus courses to into the UK

University fee waiver system won't help poorest students - 31 Jan 11

The Milton+ thinktank, chaired by Les Ebdon claims that the fee waivers scheme proposed by the coalition is unlikely to help Britain's poorest students...

Record numbers of 16 to 24 year olds jobless | 24th November 2011

1 in 5 of young people are neither in education, training or employment. That's up 137,000 on this time last year.

GCSE row splits Coalition

Lone Liberal Democrat education committee member David Ward MP joins Labour in supporting an investigation into the GCSE fiasco.

Could England's public schools buy university places? | 11 May 2011

As David Willets backs down on extra university places paid for by the rich, the fear is that, by allowing Charities, as well as big business, to buy university places, the Conservatives are giving the green light to Public Schools with charitable status to buy universities places.

Sex education failing | 14 Nov 1011

Teenagers say they only know about sex from the television; sex education at school was the biological basics...

Breeding, money, or brains - which matters more to universities? | 10 May 2011

Conservative Minister, David Willetts wants to allow the rich students pay premium fees to get places at top universities

GCSE A* to Cs drop a 'whopping' 1.5% | 24th Aug 2012

The numbers passing GCSE's with an A* to C fell slightly this year, but has the change been engineered from the centre by Education Secretary Michael Gove?

Universities set up London bases to attract foreign students - 02 Feb 2011

Foreign students buying a place at British universities is proving to be a lucrative source of income. Glasgow Caledonian's vice-chancellor Pamela Gillies said that it would allow the university to deliver a range of postgraduate courses to "a predominantly international market".

A farewell to the Arts and a plea to Michael Gove | 190213

Commended by: Paul Lashmar 'The chair of the English Arts Council for the last four years was removed by the Coalition. In her valedictory speech she sets out her case for the arts over the millenia and makes a moving appeal to the Secretary of State for Education.' Source: Liz Forgan,

Apprenticeships rise 900% as over 60s retrain | 14th Nov 2011

With the Coalition government forcing the elderly to work longer youth unemployment is sky-rocketing to over 1 million

28 English universities may lower tuition fees | 7th November 2011

The Office For Fair Access has said that of the 130 or so universities in England 21% have said they may cut their average fee to £7,500 or below.

Universities cash-in on foriegn students | 02 Feb 2011

As English students question the rocketing cost of higher education, overseas undergraduates enrolling at British universities is up 11% on the last academic year...

Plymouth college student wins olympic gold | 31st July 2012

15 year old Ruta Meilutyte celebrates winning a gold medal in the 100m breastroke

Physics no longer dull thanks to US teen comedy? | 06 Nov 2011

Big bang theory, the California-based comedy is being credited with making science less boring and encouraging more students to study physics at 'A' level.

38% of graduates claimed jobseekers allowance - 27 Jan 11

Survey suggests that half of all recent graduates think university education inadequately equips them for the workplace...

UK lowers the bar for university status

The UK Lib-Democrat/Conservative government announced today that small institutions with as few as 750 students studying towards a degree will be able to apply for university status.

Queen opens Cambridge University Lab | 28th Apr 2011

Rather than stay at home to help put up bunting ready for the big wedding, Prince William's grandmother, Her Majesty the Queen, visited Cambridge University yesterday to open a major new environmental research facility.

Universities to charge at least £6000 per year | 20 Apr 2011

Figures suggest that the average annual tuition fees will be £8600

Cambridge top of the guardian's university league | 22nd May 2012

Where's your university ranked in The Guardian's 2013 University Guide? Bolton's 120th and Oxford's number 2 with LSE 3rd.