Universities merged into business
Dius, England's department for higher and further education has been scrapped, two years after its creation.

Class size teacher action closer
Scotland's teachers are to be balloted on whether to take industrial action over the issue of class sizes

College bosses smuggled heroin
Two men who ran colleges for foreign students are jailed for smuggling millions of pounds' worth of heroin into the UK.

Marking hitch affects Sats tests
Experienced markers are told to stop work as flaws in quality checks afflict this year's Sats in England.

French GCSE pupils sit 2008 exams
Exam board Edexcel has apologised after an error meant 1,800 pupils took French papers from last year.

UK university drop-out rate rises
More students are from areas with lower participation in higher education, but more drop out before year two, figures show.

Early exam shock for Irish pupils
Thousands of students in the Irish Republic must sit a back-up exam after a school gave out an English paper a day early.

Software 'gives children a voice'
Scientists develop technology they say allows children with communication problems to converse better.

Schools rapped over GCSE sciences
Half of England's comprehensive schools did not offer physics, chemistry or biology GCSEs last year, figures show.

GCSE pupils get good luck messages from celebrities
Pupils sitting their GCSEs have made good luck messages from celebrities into an inspirational wall outside the exam room.

Heroin trail
The raids which put college bosses in the dock

University access
Drop-out rate is not the real worry, access is

Promise?
Are pupils really entitled to study separate sciences?

False start
School seeks new sponsor to become an Academy

Goggle box
Is watching lots of television bad for young minds?

E-mail us
How to contact the BBC News website education team

More delays in college projects
Colleges in England held in limbo on building projects are told they must wait a little longer for decisions over funding.

Activities 'improve exam results'
Pupils who take part in extra-curricular activities perform better in exams, the Independent Schools Council says.

Three jailed over UK visa fraud
Two women and a man are jailed in connection with one of the UK's biggest visa scams which was operated from west London.

Languages call for all degrees
A foreign language GCSE should be a compulsory requirement for a university place, the British Academy says.

'Thousands' of bogus UK students
There could be tens of thousands of students from bogus colleges remaining in the UK, MPs have been told.

'Privatise' top UK universities
The UK's top universities should be privatised to allow them to compete on the global stage, it is claimed.

Visa warning from private schools
Tighter immigration rules to tackle bogus colleges will make it harder to recruit pupils from abroad, say private schools.

Degrees maintain market value
The big increase in students since the 1980s has not damaged graduates' earning power, suggests research.

School reopens after flu outbreak
A West Midlands primary school which closed early for half-term after pupils contracted swine flu, reopens after lengthy cleaning.

Academics boycott visa 'snooping'
University lecturers say they will not comply with rules requiring them to keep checks on overseas students.

Mother denies school place fraud
A mother has appeared in court accused of lying about her address in an application for a school place.

Tests assurance as markers moan
Sats markers have been reporting concerns but the qualifications authority says all is going well this year.

Eton swine flu outbreak spreads
Three further cases of swine flu are confirmed at Eton College, while a total of 17 are diagnosed across the UK.

UK academic staff 'getting older'
One in five UK academics is now 55 or over and the proportion of under 35s is falling, newly-issued figures show.

Head guilty of nine sex charges
A head teacher is found guilty of nine charges of sex assaults against children and warned a jail sentence is inevitable.

School's money offer to parents
The Council for Catholic Maintained Schools criticises a Belfast school which is offering money to parents who send their children there.

Benefits of creative classrooms
What became of a 10-year-old report which encouraged children to be creative?

Nature, nurture and exam results
The influence of genes and class on achievement

Did Rose review prune enough?
Mike Baker steps back in time to reflect on what the future holds for England's primary schools.

Ministers and 'troublesome priests'
How much influence do ministers have on school tests?

Number of pupils is set to soar
Class sizes in England have gone up - but the population trend shows things are about to get more challenging.

Pandemic: When schools close
In the event of a flu pandemic, who decides?

New bullet points for primaries
Primary schools get three focal points - or is it four, or six?

US downturn hits schoolchildren
The prospects of US children whose families become homeless are seriously hampered, as the BBC's Dumeetha Luthra reports.

Tough times for untrained young
Life is hard for the young and untrained jobless

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