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London School of Economics and Political Science 6hr 24min ago

Anger over appearance of ex-Egyptian finance minister at LSE lecture

9 Jan 2012:
Youssef Boutros-Ghali – sentenced by Cairo court in absentia to 30 years in prison – ushered out of side door by officials
Texas 9hr 55min ago

The US schools with their own police

9 Jan 2012: More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour?
Private schools 10hr 25min ago

Charitable status for private schools: the judges say politicians must decide

9 Jan 2012: It's time for Ed Miliband and Alan Milburn to grasp the nettle on charitable status, says Fiona Millar

Open door 1 day ago

The readers' editor on… the trouble with numbers in Guardian reporting

8 Jan 2012: Chris Elliott: Open door: As readers' editor, I can and do urge more numeracy training and better use of statistics
Comment is free 2 days ago

At least Eve Arnold had the chance to break the mould

8 Jan 2012:
Yvonne Roberts: Unlike the celebrated photographer, too many people are still being denied the tools to improve their lot
Cif America 4 days ago

America's growing educational gender gap

5 Jan 2012:
Victoria Bekiempis: We're storing up trouble as young women are gaining new skills, while their male counterparts settle for lower-paid jobs

Students 10hr 55min ago

Student protesters get evicted by universities

9 Jan 2012: Some universities are using force and the courts against their own students. Are they going too far?
Digital literacy campaign 13hr 13min ago

Pupils need to understand computers, not just how to use them

9 Jan 2012:
Out of 28,000 teachers who qualified in 2010, just three individuals had a computer-related degree. What is going wrong in ICT teaching, and what can be done to remedy it?

What are the universities charging?

Universities are starting to announce their tuition fees for students in 2012. We look at what they are planning to charge.
The world's top 100 universities, 2010

Cambridge is now the world's top university, knocking Harvard from the top spot. See how it compares with the world's top 100 universities here

Wok research: bigger is not better

9 Jan 2012: Using a large wok can cause injury to the upper body, research shows
Business and all that jazz

2 Jan 2012: What can Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach entrepreneurs? Quite a lot, say Warwick academics

Britain's computer science courses failing to give workers digital skills

Poor-quality training and 'sausage factory' courses leave companies struggling to recruit computer-literate workers
Computing on the Guardian Teacher Network

This week on the Guardian Teacher Network, there are resources to use in the classroom, but also plenty of other ideas to inspire pupils about computing
ICT at school is boring, children say

Children would rather learn to design games in school ICT lessons than do 'boring' stuff they know how to do already
More on schools

New breed of university will make UK 'best place in world to do science'

Science minister David Willetts describes plans to attract international investment in scientific research to Britain
Number of UK-born university applicants slumps by 8%

In the year fees of up to £9,000 kick in, 283,680 people apply for university from within UK, compared with 306,908 last year
An education wishlist for 2012

A sabbatical for teachers; an end to student visa restrictions; and more Michael Gove? Some hopes for the new year
More on higher education

Short courses help adults to a second career

Demand is soaring for short courses, from drumming to shoe-making, among people seeking a portfolio career – and it's good news for colleges and universities
More on further education

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Higher Education Network 12hr 46min ago

20 things you need to know before you self-publish

Following our live chat, where our panel of experts explored the hows and why of self-publishing, we now round up the top 20 things you need to know for academic self-publishing success
Higher Education Network 19hr 15min ago

What does 2012 hold for higher education policy?

In this blog, the second in our 2012 predictions series, policy wonks tell us what developments they expect to see this year
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