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Lily Cole takes a tumble as she gets her skates on at Somerset House

17.11.09
Lily Cole opened the ice-skating season at Somerset House in traditional style — by falling over.... more

How to spot a 'derailer'

16.11.09
Psychometric testing was invented to identify the positive qualities of job candidates. Now it's being used to weed out potential threats to the business, says Helen Kirwan-Taylor... more

Anger as ministers ignore call to overhaul ‘Victorian school system’

16.10.09
Ministers were condemned today for rejecting the most comprehensive inquiry into primary education for 40 years... more

Young, black and with the world at their feet

28.09.09
Graduates make ethnic minority 'power list' as thirty of the country’s most promising black students tipped as politicians, bankers and business people of tomorrow... more

Sixth form college leads way with 99.4% passes

20.08.09
Students at a sixth form college in south London led the way with a record number of A grades... more

Women edge out men to take the high-status jobs

11.08.09
Woman have staged a 'quiet revolution in the workplace' and now hold down more high-status jobs than men, research suggests... more

Women edge out men to take the high-status jobs

11.08.09
Women have staged a 'quiet revolution in the workplace' and now hold down more high-status jobs than men, research suggests... more

Get grisly at Wellcome's Victorian medical show

29.07.09
Sex may have been taboo in Victorian London, but hundreds of thousands of people were obsessed with grisly 'medical museums', a new exhibition reveals... more

Cambridge University diversity in Proms show

23.07.09
Forget centenaries, bicentenaries, tercentenaries. Let's celebrate Cambridge University's founding 800 years ago. ... more

Scientists cast doubts over sperm ‘made in laboratory’

08.07.09
British scientists were today claiming to have made medical history by creating human sperm in the laboratory... more

Concert celebrates Cambridge's 800th anniversary

23.06.09
The City of London Festival programme juxtaposed two big choral pieces by Peter Maxwell Davies with a new one by John Harle.... more

Academies 'no better for GCSE results than comprehensives'

04.06.09
Academies are no better than conventional comprehensive schools, research suggests... more

Hawking set for full recovery from chest infection

21.04.09
Stephen Hawking is expected to make a “full recovery” after being taken to hospital with what is believed to be a chest infection, his colleagues said... more

Hawking ‘very ill in hospital’

20.04.09
Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most famous scientists, is “very ill” in hospital, Cambridge University said... more

Now Imperial College demands A* at A-level

18.03.09
Imperial College London is to join Cambridge University in demanding the new A* A-level grade from students... more

Men more at risk of losing jobs than women in crunch

06.03.09
Harriet Harman was caught in a row over whether women will suffer most in the recession... more

Education at primaries 'is deficient'

20.02.09
Children's lives are being impoverished by an education that is "fundamentally deficient", a major inquiry concluded... more

Cambridge in row over ball's 'Empire' theme

10.02.09
Students at a Cambridge University college defended their decision to hold an end-of-term ball with a "British Empire" theme... more

Autism test on unborn babies

12.01.09
Pregnant women could soon have babies screened for autism in the same way as they can be tested for Down's syndrome, research suggests... more

Email records are 'breach of privacy'

09.01.09
A law requiring internet service providers to keep details of every email sent in the UK are a breach of privacy and a waste of money... more

Graduates told to take bar work while they look for jobs

05.01.09
Graduates face a desperate struggle for good jobs as employers cut back for the first time in years... more

Versatile Hewat's unstoppable as London Irish axe Dax again

12.12.08
London Irish outclassed Dax for the second time in six days to take total control of their European Challenge Cup pool ... more

Teaching is my escape from the City

12.11.08
Former headhunter James Carter, 29, from West Hampstead, is taking what is fast becoming a well-trodden escape route for City workers and retraining as a teacher... more

New laws on killer wives 'won't work'

17.09.08
Government plans to reform murder laws to help women who kill abusive partners are "fundamentally inept" and will backfire, a legal expert has warned... more

Rise and rise of the 'gold standard'

14.08.08
The Government faces fresh criticism of A-level results with another rise in the pass rate... more

'I hope tougher sentences work'

16.07.08
The father of a cyclist killed in a road collision has welcomed the new sentencing guidelines... more

Cambridge first for girl nearly killed by anorexia

14.07.08
A London student who achieved a top degree from Cambridge University revealed how she almost died from anorexia... more

Family of Cambridge student killed on bike hit out at police

10.06.08
The parents of a student killed while cycling are set to launch a private legal battle after claiming police failed to investigate his death properly... more

The Common Pursuit : When cruel capitalism takes hold

29.05.08
A nostalgic wander down memory lane when chaps had girlfriends with nice names like Marigold says Robert Gore-Langton.... more

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