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...

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...

Clearing’s adjustment process helps students find better uni offers. All it takes is a little post-exam homework. More...

The education system is changing, so we need to make sure the higher education applications process is still fit for purpose. Over the last few years we’ve seen a rapid rise in the number of unconditional offers. More...

Almost everyone is in favour of post-qualification admissions until they explore the detail. More...

More than 250 students and academic staff have been manning the phone lines since 6am at the university’s main campus in south London. Clearing was once stigmatised as the option for young people who had done poorly on A-level results day, but the excitement on both sides of the phone shows it has morphed into an increasingly popular route into university. More...

Hundreds of thousands of 18-year-olds will pick up their A-level results next Thursday. For those intending to go to university it will be a buyers’ market, with many of the country’s leading institutions vying to attract students to take up places on tens of thousands of courses that are still unfilled. More...

Only 16% of university heads were privately educated, in contrast to judges and elite civil servants. Why the difference. More...