It looks like a bold decision. An exam board affected by controversy over the use of vocational courses to help schools rise up league tables is about to open up its data for full media scrutiny. Edexcel is to hold a national results day in July, Education Guardian can reveal, when detailed statistics on hundreds of thousands of pupils' achievementsRead more

Last week University College London announced to English students, of which I am one, that their one-on-one tutorials are to be cut. Undergraduate students currently have four hour-long sessions with an academic each term. These are to be replaced with half-hour sessions focused solely on submitted work. The cuts were explained as being unrelated to the Browne review and theRead more

"Miss, Miss … I've chosen a book to read," says the slightly dishevelled boy with a dimpled grin, gazing at me over the top of his glasses which have slid halfway down his nose. "Great!" I enthuse, with what I hope is a friendly and encouraging smile. "Show me what you've picked." "I've picked a POOH out of your BOTTOM,"Read more

Plenty, it seems. Al-Ahram 's Photoshop job on a picture involving the president has erupted into a furore of rare proportions. Alaa Abdel-Ghani reports If a picture is worth a thousand words, the payback can be an equal amount of vocabulary, if not more, especially when the photo is one which much of the country and beyond has been talkingRead more