Middle-class families monopolise the best schools even when a lottery is used to allocate places, according to a study published today.
Lotteries
A child\'s social class is more likely to determine how well they perform in school if they are white than if they come from an ethnic minority, researchers
At 15, most teenagers are struggling to get their heads around the algebra and equations of maths GCSE. Not Arran Fernandez.
Next month, he will
Schools would be expected to give priority to poorer children when admitting new pupils and judged on the extent to which they narrow the gap between
Earlier in the summer there were rumblings of rage at the recent trend towards educating half the population to degree level. This expansion appears
Girls think they are cleverer, more successful and harder working than boys from as young as four, a study has found.
Boys come round to this
Over 140 schools are expected to convert to academy status in the coming school year after the government passed a new law to allow every school in
Imperial College London is to set up a new medical school in Singapore in the latest move by an elite British university to establish a presence in
Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
Kemnal Technology College (part of the Kemnal Trust), Bromley
Brine Leas High School, Cheshire East
Fallibroome
Stomping across a sopping wet field towards a blue-and-white striped tent called the Harmony House, I suddenly realise I'm not feeling all that keen
Combining world class education opportunities with the unique history, culture and the many public resorts, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts is the best way to spend a beneficial and amusing summer.
Authors who write about dark or disturbing subjects invariably draw the question: where does that come from? But no one who knows anything about him
Last week\'s article regarding the Apple MacBook sparked a fiery debate about affordability and the usual battle between Apple and PCs. This week we
"Dear Sir: Your astonishment\'s odd; / I am always about in the quad." This was the divine response, as imagined by Ronald Knox, to the inquisitive
Stephen Hawking makes the claim that it is not necessary to invoke God as the creator of the universe and the assertion that physics alone made it.
He
In finger-wagging style, Mary Midgley warns that "serious scientists know that their enquiries are endless; any answers always raise a swarm of new
The Browne review into the funding of higher education has led to a debate on whether a university education provides value for money. In the last three
The new school year was supposed to bring a great wave of new academies. In the event, it will be a trickle. In June Michael Gove claimed that 1,100
Over the course of my five years as a teacher at a central London comprehensive school, there was a noticeable shift in the tone of conversation among
I am an evangelist. But instead of spreading the gospel or any other religious message, I spend my time trying to share the knowledge of what I believe
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Tony Blair has written an extraordinary political memoir. He could hardly do otherwise. This is not a judgment on the quality of his prose, which is
The true origin of the celebrated phrase "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", which Clark Gable so savagely directs at Vivien Leigh in Gone With
Rebel shareholders have opened fire on music shops chain HMV over its management of Waterstone's, Britain's largest books retailer. Investors want HMV
Bjørn Lomborg's change of mind on climate change is welcome, and some of his suggestions good, but your glowing review of his new book failed to examine
The most prominent climate sceptic and the most vocal advocate of the cause in the UK are to take part in their first public debate on the subject.
The
Few statisticians can have inspired more passion than Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish academic who became famous as the author of the controversial (some
Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the UN's science panel on climate change, is coming under pressure to step aside as chair of the organisation after an
Bjørn Lomborg in his own words:
"This chapter accepts the reality of man-made global warming." The Skeptical Environmentalist, 2001
"Global
The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today"
Yesterday, when I should have been writing a paper about data from the Atlas detector at Cern\'s Large Hadron Collider, I was taxied across Geneva to
God did not create the universe, the man who is arguably Britain's most famous living scientist says in a forthcoming book.
In the new work, The
Doctors should stop giving newborn babies sugar to relieve the pain of minor medical procedures because it does not work and may damage their brains,
On 6 April 1821 ? a little more than two decades before their countryman Richard Owen would coin the term "Dinosauria" ? the English naturalists Henry
In case you missed it, I wrote about a conference on supersymmetry I went to last week, just before this blog moved home. I also gave some reasons why
Long before hippie poster boy Timothy Leary invited the world to "Turn on, tune in and drop out", a group of pioneering psychiatrists working in Canada
About 10,000 Britons a year could avoid getting breast or bowel cancer if they undertook more physical activity, especially walking, according to the
Like most people, I always wanted to be a success; I was born wanting to accomplish something worthwhile that would justify my existence on this planet.
There's no evidence of wings or fire-breathing capability. But the powerfully built, meat-eating predator that terrorised Romania some 80m years ago
Dry weeks in early summer have already made 2010 a vintage year for archaeology, English Heritage said yesterday. The conditions allowed hundreds of
Young people are increasingly likely to end up with sexually transmitted infections, experts say today as official figures are released showing record
Secret explosives tests in which a blast killed a Ministry of Defence scientist were inappropriately planned and appeared to have been inadequately
An Australian school headteacher has asked students to stop using the word "gay" when singing a classic children's song, but today said no offence was
New figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) today reveal a record level in diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK.
According
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Publishers love to flog fads to death. Consider the recent mania for "misery memoirs", which (mercifully) appears to have peaked. No more tales of anal
His latest creation is a long way from Purple Ronnie, but the creator of that ubiquitous stickman, Giles Andreae, has been named winner of an award
Dan Brown has hung on to the dubious honour of being the author whose books readers most want to get rid of, topping the list of writers most-donated
They may be sadistic figures who hate children, but a study suggests that the savage portrayal of headteachers in children's literature possesses a
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I don't mean to boast, but I think I have quite strong hands. Strong because they are forced, every night in bed, to hold up whatever hefty tome I'm
The author JK Rowling has donated £10m to set up a clinic to research treatments for multiple sclerosis, the degenerative disease that killed
Sad news for those of us with fond memories of long minutes lost in the more arcane histories of English words: the third edition of the Oxford English
Nearly 3,000 authors are calling on the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, not to cut back on the money they receive when their books are loaned from a
The experience of reading books on an iPad is disconcertingly beautiful. It has rapidly become the favourite use of this dazzling gadget in our house.
Title of experiment: Examination of Plays about Science.
Purpose: To determine why so few good plays about maths and science are written, when
North-west Pilot Concorde, and reinvent the wheel, Manchester and Wilmslow Aircraft aficionados should plot a course for Manchester airport's Runway
It may not have felt like much of a summer but school's back this week and in a few days the autumn term will officially start; new shoes are being
Robots on Mars that can fix themselves and computers built from DNA: not science fiction but the work of scientists at the forefront of computing. Dennis
This week the nation's kids return to school, all bright-eyed and smelling of hope. Ditto the cast of Waterloo Road – basically Holby City for former
In a memoir filled with profound navel-gazing, political bombshells and a few purple-prose love scenes, Tony Blair has also found time to salute U2\'s
Winston Churchill had the right idea about memoirs. "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it," he revealed during the second world war.
On the banks crisis'The biggest danger was a view that people would want the state to come back into fashion – I didn't think that'
On the
One of the joys of language is that sometimes it is the little things that trigger the most intense debate. Such as one little word: "no". Or, more
The basicsEveryone's favourite psychologically scarred, battle-hardened punk hacker, Lisbeth Salander, returns to exact further vengeance on any misogynistic
The typical footballer's understanding of the three Rs might normally extend no further than studying the flicks and tricks of Rooney, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.
One of the most entertaining recent books on bridge is Moments of Truth at the Bridge Table by the Indian writer R Jayaram. Bridge is very popular in
The death occurred at Oxford on Friday evening of Dr. William Archibald Spooner, who was for twenty-one years Warden of New College, Oxford.
Dr
Singapore's long-serving administration has won some time to ponder how it will deal with yet another self-inflicted blow to its global branding.
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