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The number of applicants for social science places starting in 2012 has slumped by 20%, according to early figures. Humanities look as if they are doing slightly better with a fall of just 12%. Overall, applications for un... More

Oxford University claims its bursary package for poor students is more generous than any other university's. Some no-strings bursaries for 2012 will be worth more than £22,000 over three years. A university spokewoma... More

The Head of Mansfield College Oxford, Baroness Kennedy QC, claims that some Oxford admissions tutors are too easily suckered by well-spoken applicants from independent schools. She also considers that students from upper-m... More

According to whistle-blowers, some teachers are giving their students the actual exam questions before they sit their GCSEs and A-levels. Teachers are said to cheat in this way because of the pressure to achieve high grade... More

Some customers of the Student Loans Company (SLC) have been identified by the company as being at risk of havin... More

How to fund your education? The National Union of Students  (NUS) claims that more students are turning to prostitution, gambling and taking part in medical experiments to fund their education. Apparently in support o... More

Last summer's A-level grades saw a record number of demands from schools for scripts to be re-marked. Indeed over 12,000+ grades were altered. The exam regulator (Ofqual) says that nearly 2700 complaints were urgent, becau... More

New College, Oxford, which was founded over 600 years ago, is trying to get trademark protection for its own name. It is aiming to do this before the new New College of the Humanities, a private university, manages to... More

 UCAS reports that there have been 15% fewer applications by UK-born students than at this time last year. But Wendy Platt, Director General of the Russell Group of top universities, says it is too early to predict ho... More