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Schools stunned by delay in Sats results
12.30pm update: Today's embarrassing announcement by ministers of a delay in issuing Sats results for 11- and 14-year-olds has left schools reeling
Should marking problems have been foreseen? Have your say
What are Sats?

Give four-year-olds sex education, say charities
Two leading sexual health charities are calling for children as young as four to be given compulsory sex education
Blog: How young is too young?

Top Jewish school cleared of discriminating against pupil
Court rules that faith school is within rights to give preference to children born to Orthodox Jewish mothers
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Higher news

Rammel criticises university for rejecting convicted teenager
Minister says universities should be open to applicants with spent convictions who have turned their lives around
Majid Ahmed: 'One day I will become a doctor'
Share your views on Imperial's ruling

Graduates take home £20,000
Graduates leaving full-time degree courses are earning an average salary of £20,000, and nearly two thirds find full-time jobs within six months of graduating, figures show
Use our interactive university tables to pick your course

And the greenest university is ... Gloucestershire
Universities are today ranked on how green they are - and the new universities come out on top
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Further education

Funds promised to end skills shortage
The government addressed Britain's skills shortage today with a promise of £300m to train workers for jobs in construction, hospitality and manufacturing. Jessica Shepherd reports
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Comment and analysis

Results day in France puts 'bac' under spotlight
As 600,000 French pupils find out if they have passed the dreaded baccalauréat, some experts argue it has lost academic worth. Gwladys Fouché reports

How the government is supporting the 21st-century school
The schools secretary, Ed Balls, explains plans to strengthen and broaden the role of Children's Trusts

Lessons for the godless
Zoe Williams on what we can learn from the success of faith schools
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Obituaries

Michael Marland
Visionary, radical and energetic headteacher who championed the comprehensive ideal

Nicolas Coldstream
A distinguished scholar and author, he wrote a seminal book on Greek archaeology

Student news

Student loans: borrowings soar by a third
Students are borrowing record amounts to pay for their studies, new government figures reveal
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Gap year stories

Write about your time out
Tell Guardian readers about your travels or experiences on a gap year in no more than 500 words (and add a photo of yourself on your gap year) and we will publish the best in a summer guide for future travellers. Send entries to: education@guardian.co.uk. Mark your email: MY GAP YEAR

E-learning

Getting social at university
Harriet Swain looks at how higher education is getting more out of the web
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Tefl

From Slovakia with love
Thinking about careers after graduating, Samantha Brunt was adamant that the classroom wasn't for her. So how did she end up teaching English in Slovakia for 10 months?

Cost of British Council English tests 'too high'
The council will need to look for cheaper ways of teaching, auditors say
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University guide 2009

How did your university rank?
Use our unique rankings system to search for a university course by subject or institution
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The road to university

University funding 2008-09

Scotland: Summary of 2008-09 grant tables
Settlements for universities in Scotland, in alphabetical order

England: Hefce funding 2008-09
Find out what each university will receive in funding for this year, the winners, and losers
Table: Who got the most
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RAE 2008: The race for funding

League table predicts RAE frontrunners
Universities approach next hurdle for the 2008 research assessment exercise - the deadline for submissions
The science of funding
Explainer: What is the RAE?
Eric Thomas: Metrics deserve a measured response
Jonathan Adams: Peer review unmatched by metrics
Table: Who came top?
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University teaching

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University students in England have it easy
Time bomb
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Special report: University teaching

National Student Survey 2007

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Students get OU satisfaction
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GCSE and A-level results tables 2007
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UK degrees are 'arbitrary and unreliable', says watchdog
Quality Assurance Agency warns that there is too much reliance on income from overseas students

SEN children need more financial support - report
Schools having to cope with increasing numbers of children with special educational needs without extra financial support

How our adult literacy initiative has changed people's lives
David Lammy, the minister for skills, on the government's success in helping adults with their English and maths skills



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