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Michael Gove: failing the test

21 Jun 2012: Editorial: The new CSE would predominantly be a certificate of the north and the poorer classes
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Steve Bell on Nick Clegg's opposition to Michael Gove's plan to ditch GCSEs - cartoon

21 Jun 2012: Cartoon
The deputy PM has vowed to block changes to the education system proposed by the education secretary
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Phonics checks will not improve reading

21 Jun 2012: Letters: Many of those working in primary education fear that these tests could undermine rather than benefit children's progress

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Cambridge University must overturn this suspension for reading a poem

21 Jun 2012: James Everest: You told us: If we value the freedom to protest, we must support Owen Holland in his appeal of a seven-term ban for disrupting a lecture
Comment is free 8hr 59min ago

Michael Gove is the enemy of promise

21 Jun 2012: Fiona Millar: With his nostalgia for O-levels, the education secretary risks recreating the 'sheep and goats' divide in our school system
Comment is free 12hr 52min ago

Scrapping GCSEs will hurt yet another generation of children

21 Jun 2012: Martin Belam: I experienced the disruption of the first year of GCSEs. Now Michael Gove wants to see more pupils treated as guinea pigs

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Breadline Britain: Demand grows for school breakfasts

19 Jun 2012: Teachers report growing demand for free breakfasts and rising numbers of underweight, lethargic pupils with signs of hunger
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Apps bring museum studies to life

19 Jun 2012:
Touchscreen devices are putting students and curators together

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Higher education funding: which institutions will be affected?

Guardian analysis shows the areas of higher education that are likely to be squeezed in the academic year 2012-13
World's top 100 universities 2012: their reputations ranked by the THE

The top 100 list of world universities shows Harvard at number one again, UK's leading universities have dropped several places since last year and China's universities have improved. Find out what else this list reveals

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Creating a culture of collaboration in universities - live chat, Friday 22 June

20 Jun 2012: Guardian Professional
Complex problems require interdisciplinary teams to solve them, but funding and journals promote specialisation and isolation. How then can universities develop a cross-discipline culture?
The research that's on everyone's lips

18 Jun 2012: What do your lips say about you? Researchers have shown that every person's lip print pattern is unique, which makes them a useful tool in forensics - and women's are identifiably different to men's, too

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Return of O-levels: Michael Gove to get rid of GCSEs in exams shakeup

Two-tier system proposed with first new tests modelled on old O-levels planned for 2016
AS-levels could be scrapped under planned exam reforms

Ofqual proposes return to two-year A-levels with exams at end of course
Exclusive: Half of teachers forced to feed pupils going hungry at home

Heads and doctors want needy children to get free breakfast as Guardian survey reveals upsurge in demand
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Higher education

Top maths graduates lured into teaching

Maths teachers are in short supply, but bursaries and paid on-the-job training are helping to attract graduates
Should medical postgrad courses teach management skills?

Postgraduate healthcare training is set to go through a major shakeup as new courses aim to improve patient care
Cosmic professor

He has scripted major films and Coronation Street, won acclaim for his children's novels, and is now helping with the Olympics. For his next trick, he'll be the UK's first professor of reading. Martin Wainwright talks to Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Further education

Are colleges being overseen by the right inspectors?

Private school inspectors are now scrutinising colleges that want to admit international students. But why, asks Geoffrey Alderman
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James Derounian has been on two foreign exchanges this year, and his travels have prompted him to question; what makes an academic trip worthwhile?
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The rise of 'glocal' students and transnational education

Institutions should seize the opportunity to engage with those who seek an international education but want to stay local, says Rahul Choudaha
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