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Adventure holidays for excluded students

Children excluded from school for misbehaving are to be offered the chance to go abseiling, quad biking and water skiing

Parents give their children a lesson in exam stress

A survey has found that 48 per cent of parents believe that they are more anxious than their children about exam results

'Helicopter parents' fill in Ucas forms

The universities admissions service said that it had allowed parents to act as proxy in their child's search for a place

Holiday camps for excluded children

Children excluded from school are to be offered the chance to go abseiling and quad biking on summer camps the government said

Underperforming schools funding could be revoked

Schools deemed by the Government to be underperforming could face the extra blow of losing their specialist status and linked funding

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‘You couldn’t teach yourself’

Julian Foddy, a mature student taking a digital entertainment degree, was asked to work on three films before he graduated

Creative degrees ‘must be treated like science’

Snobbery is behind the criticism of creative degree courses as 'Mickey Mouse' subjects, according to Les Ebdon

All-girl school students outperform their mixed school counterparts

The full extent of the gap in performance between girls in single-sex and mixed schools has been detailed by official figures

Beating the A-level blues "if at first you don’t succeed..."

Poor exam results are not the end of the world, says Chris Woodhead. Here, he offers advice on what to do nex

Survey finds British workforce has poor skills

Employers have complained that despite billions extra having been spent on education, the standard of school leavers is not improving

Universities pay women to study science

Cash awards, often unrelated to merit, are being awarded to women by universities struggling to fill places

Exam firm sacked – now the tests may go

US-company ordered to repay £24m in move seen to be an opportunity to bring forward plans to reform the much-hated tests

More students than ever go through clearing

Record number of school-leavers find university places through clearing system but leading institutions still have space

Inspectors tell pupils of 4 that they are failing

School inspectors have written to children warning them that they are not learning enough to prepare them for their adult lives

ETS sacked over national testing shambles

The company responsible for failing to deliver millions of school exam results on time this summer has been sacked

Daughter's kidnap turned into exam triumph

The fee for the story of Alex Griffiths abduction when she was a baby, was invested into her education at a private school

Three A-levels 'no longer enough for university'

Increasing numbers of teenagers are opting to take four or more subjects in an attempt to stand out from the crowd

Kidnapped baby grows into A-level success

Mother paid girl's expensive boarding-school education with money she received from kidnapping newspaper story

Maths and science comeback as A-Level grades soar

More pupils take maths than ever before while science also gets a boost, as the government promises to toughen qualification