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Top universities are giving privately educated children an unfair advantage by not differentiating between the rigorous GCSEs compulsory in the state system and less demanding exams taken in many fee-paying schools, MPs and educationists have said. More...

The University and College Union (UCU) said it had rejected an offer by the employers, represented by Universities UK (UUK), to swap limited increases in staff pension contributions for a two-year bar on strike action. More...

Record numbers of students are waiting for their A-level grades to apply, bypassing Ucas’s January deadline. More...

A-level results day is on Thursday. It usually brings lots of photos of young people leaping in the air and lazy commentators doing their best to play down the achievements of staff and students, despite not stepping foot in a school for decades. More...

The Scottish and Welsh governments have written to the UK education secretary to raise concerns about the future of the European student exchange programme after Brexit. More...

Goldsmiths, University of London has put down a challenge to everyone with its canteen beef ban. It is one the rest of us should take up for the sake of the planet. More...

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Labour wants a change so places are offered to students after exam results are known. More...

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