The scale of teenage domestic abuse has been revealed in a landmark study showing that children as young as 13 are suffering at the hands of violent partners... more
Teenage pregnancy could be 'contagious' and caught by girls influenced by their elder sisters who have children while young, new research suggests... more
It used to be commonplace for students to be sponsored through university. The most affluent students by far in my day were the medics who had contracted to join the army for a few years on graduation, and in return drew a junior officer's pay for the six years of their training... more
Next time you hear an unemployed graduate complaining about the lack of job opportunities and about student debt, you might like to point them in the direction of Nicko Williamson... more
A revolutionary new chewing gum developed and backed in the UK which can be removed from pavements and Tube seats using only water, is launched in the US ... more
Universities must tell students how many lectures they will attend amid concern that undergraduates are not getting value for money, a watchdog said... more
David Cameron and Boris Johnson can look forward to a play inspired by the Bullingdon Club - just in time for next year's general election campaign... more
Increasing numbers of graduates from top universities are capitalising on the demand for home tutoring by setting up lucrative private agencies... more
The son of former Warburg Securities chairman Peter Wilmot-Sitwell has been appointed co-head of investment banking at UBS, the Swiss owner of the firm where his father worked
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Puffs of white smoke emerged from the Bristol headquarters of Imperial Tobacco as Alison Cooper was promoted to chief operating officer, making her a clear front-runner to succeed long-standing chief executive Gareth Davis... more
Hundreds of air passengers faced their third day of being stranded at Heathrow as the airport struggled to cope with the aftermath of Monday’s snow storms... more
J M G Le Clézio, who has just won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, has many connections to Britain. The son of a British doctor, he grew up speaking both French and English. As a child, he regularly holidayed in Britain and went on to study English at Bristol University.... more
It’s an issue that can cloud the cheering fact that London is home to some of the most brilliant health care specialists in the world, leaders in their fields. ... more
Black men in England are three times more likely than white men to get prostate cancer and tend to be diagnosed five years younger, scientists have found... more
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