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By Geoffrey A. Fowler.   College-level courses distributed free online have much more to do before they achieve their proponents' hopes of eliminating economic, geographic, racial and gender barriers to higher education, according to a University of Pennsylvania study published Wednesday. 
The university surveyed nearly 35,000 students from more than 200 countries and territories who participated in the 32 massive open online courses, or MOOCs, it distributes through Coursera, the largest provider of the free courses. Researchers found that most... More...

By Alan Tovey. Getting a degree pays off when it comes to earnings with graduates enjoying salaries that accelerate faster and flatten out at a higher level and later age than those who did not go to university, ONS data finds. 
New data from the Office for National Statistics showed that graduates’ annual earnings levelled out at a median of £35,000 a year at about 38 years old. 
This compares with average earnings of those who did apprenticeships of about £27,000, levelling out at the age of about 37. However those who took apprenticeships had higher starting salaries, averaging £17,383 a year at 21, compared with £14,343 for graduates. More...

By Neil Johnston and Fiona Parker. A ‘National Day of Action’ took place this afternoon, coordinated by the Student Assembly Against Austerity (SAAA).
The protests, staged at 25 universities across the country including Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield and LSE, were in response to the Government’s decision to privatise the student loan book as part of plans to raise £15 billion from the sale of public assets by 2020. More...

By Nick Morrison. Top universities are finally waking up to the true value of the International Baccalaureate, finds Nick Morrison.
 As far as school qualifications are concerned, the International Baccalaureate has always stood out for the passion of its supporters. No average award this, they say, the IB is the complete package. 
“Almost everybody who teaches it thinks it is a better education,” says John Claughton, Chief Master of King Edward’s School, Birmingham, which switched from A-levels to the post-16 IB diploma in 2010. More...

By Nicola Dandridge. Having a degree can make you more resilient in the hard times and more successful in the good times, says Nicola Dandridge.
 It would be understandable for recent graduates and students at university to look at the graduate employment figures this week and despair. 
But what we should be saying to graduates, students and those weighing up their options, is that having a degree can make you more resilient in the hard times and more successful in the good times. More...

By Graeme Paton. Research warns that exam results alone cannot explain why relatively wealthy students are much more likely to get into top universities than those from working class families.
 Students from working-class families are around three times less likely to get into a top university than their richer peers despite often having the required A-level grades, according to research. Academic results at the age of 18 cannot explain the huge gulf in entry rates to the most sought-after degree courses in England, it was claimed. 
The study warned that many bright teenagers from poor homes were opting for lower ranking universities rather than striving for the top institutions. More...

69 % des allocataires du RSA-socle seul en janvier 2010 y sont toujours en fin d’année,