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Thousands of students would be driven out of university by £7,000-a-year tuition fees, research suggests.

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OECD report says Britain's "competitive advantage" has been lost, slipping behind Poland, Iceland, Portugal and Slovakia.

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The pressure for places at good schools has risen as cash-strapped parents look at options. That means catchment area homes are in hot demand, says Caroline McGhie. Students who use Facebook while studying for exams score significantly lower grades than those who do not, according to a study. Students' average debt could balloon to £25,000 after a review panel led by Lord Browne of Madingley decided to raise tuition fees rather than introduce a graduate tax, it was reported. Examinations will be toughened up to meet standards set in other countries such as Singapore, South Korea and China, according to the Coalition. A generation of new schools being established in office blocks, churches and libraries could open as early as next year, it emerged today. Education Secretary Michael Gove has outlined what he described as "a formidable reform programme" for schooling. Schoolchildren learn more quickly if the brightest and most confident are prevented from putting up their hands, according to a teaching expert.

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Civil servants who allocate university teaching money are secretly opposing moves to ban spending on "Mickey Mouse" degrees. Little girls already see themselves as academic front-runners, but often the rebel boy wins out in the end, says Jenny McCartney. Telegraph View: The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) allows millions of pounds to be devoted to supporting courses such as Tournament Golf, Third World Development with Pop Music, and Waste Management with Dance. GCSEs are being undermined by the drive to make subjects more "accessible" to pupils, according to a leading headmistress. Primary schools will have to find an extra 350,000 places over the next four years despite cuts in education spending. Controversial admissions lotteries established to break the middle-class stranglehold on good schools are failing, according to a study. Growing numbers of primary schools have no male teachers, figures show, prompting fears that boys could be put off education at a young age. Foreign students are attempting to bluff their way into British universities by parroting education websites in their applications, research suggests. Failing primary schools will be converted into academies in a drive to improve education standards in England, Michael Gove signals today. Thousands of teenagers are still being "let down" by failing schools despite record investment in education under Labour, according to business leaders. Failing primary schools will be converted into academies to improve education standards, Michael Gove signals today. After fresh reports of the widening gender gap in schools, Gareth Malone tells how he helped some pupils learn to love literacy . New types of schools can educate without the burden of bureaucracy, says Michael Gove. Almost 150 schools will become independent academies this year in a dramatic expansion of the Coalition's flagship education reforms. We should be concerned about a society where opportunity is so profoundly determined by who your parents are, says Robert Colvile.

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Teachers may be fuelling the gender gap in education by stereotyping boys as badly behaved, research suggests.