Students educated at state schools are increasingly being turned away from the UK’s elite universities, according to a new report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. Published on July 17th, the report says there were 126 fewer students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds at Russell Group universities in 2011-2012 than there were in […]

Distance learning courses are set to take off in a whole new way, as 21 universities in the UK prepare to launch their own “moocs” – massive open online courses, which have already seen considerable success in the USA.  Leeds, Bristol and Southampton are among the institutions that will begin the courses this autumn, according […]

Education secretary Michael Gove has unveiled reforms to the GCSE system, promising to make the exams “more challenging, more ambitious and more rigorous” in a bid to drive up standards of education. The changes, which were announced on June 11th, will have considerable impact on students taking the exams in future, including those in school […]

Two young people who have already carved impressive careers for themselves have described the key role distance learning courses played in their success. Speaking to the Guardian, 22-year-old James Elwood, a business manager at Santander, said he left school without going to university and took a job as a bank cashier. During his job, he […]

The achievements of 11 Community Learning Champions have been recognised by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), which has published their stories as part of National Volunteers Week. The week, which ran between June 1st and 7th, is an annual celebration of the contributions volunteers of all kinds make to the lives of […]