Greenwich University is top of the league table for cheats after more than 800 students were caught plagiarising, trying to bribe lecturers or buying essays from the internet last year, a survey shows
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Thousands of students are being forced to consider paying huge tuition fees to attend private universities because state-funded courses are full... more
Children's grasp of basic scientific knowledge is exposed as far weaker than previously thought as new figures cast doubt on a decade of apparent improvements in education... more
Even knowing the furore that his novel, Lolita, would cause, Vladimir Nabokov couldn’t resist teasing such “educators” and their discomfort with sex... more
It has been a year of records. More students than ever have applied to university, more have got the grades they need, and more have been accepted at the first asking.... more
Exam pass rates over the past two decades prove that A-levels have been 'dumbed down', academics claimed as the Conservatives announced plans to overhaul school league tables... more
No one seems to have a good word for Sir Victor Blank, chairman of Lloyds, who happily signed up to the merger of HBOS without, as his chief executive admits, doing anywhere near enough due diligence... more
State schools were accused of failing the brightest children after figures showed a shock fall in the number of 11-year-olds scoring top grades in Sats... more
The Government has been exaggerating school standards for the last decade because a marking "fiddle" boosted test results for hundreds of thousands of children... more
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