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Future leaders? Boys make their way to classes at Eton College

You want to get an Eton scholarship? All you need to do is answer four (not so simple) questions

Application test included questions on the morals of killing protesters, ancient Persian thinkers and translating sentences in a made-up language
Survey finds today's university students are anxious to find alternative social activities that do not involve drinking
Suli Breaks: The secret of success? Forget exams – it’s all about getting the Breaks
Leading headteacher: Michael Gove 'chickening out' on return of grammar schools
More than a million primary schoolchildren unable to swim, says major survey
Majority of parents believe sex education should be compulsory in secondary schools, YouGov poll reveals
Reforms to teachers' pay ‘will mean bigger class sizes’
Paul McCartney lends support to free school in Liverpool
Labour pledges to beef up teaching standards in further education colleges
The school run is a health time bomb, report warns, at start of Walk to School Week
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Chalk Talk: Just what could be the source of headteachers' stress, Mr Gove?

Education Secretary Michael Gove has been likened to many things in his time, but the image of him as a "fanatical" personal-fitness trainer is one that does not readily come to mind. The analogy was made by Bernadette Hunter, president of the National Association of Head Teachers, in her address to her conference at the weekend.
The write stuff: How Unity Academy transformed its students' literacy skills
Chalk Talk: A cheering legacy of the summer of contentment
Swot up on how to pay school fees
The show must go on for Lytchett Minster school - in the Olympic canteen
Chalk Talk: What a carry on over a new state boarding school
Chalk Talk: Why can't all children be top of the class?
Is it time we banished homework?
David Caron: 'I want King's College London to be the Harvey Nichols of law schools'
Chalk Talk: A night that showed creativity in our schools at its very best
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School of frocks: students at the Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design in London

The absolutely fabulous school of fashion: The publisher of Vogue now has its own college

Chloë Hamilton ventures into its glossy interior to meet the first intake
The 10 best language products
'I'm in Birmingham but my students are global'
Can you master a language in a weekend?
Elocution lessons: Who wants to speak the Queen's English?
Education: The age of uncertainty
Proposed new immigration laws could deprive colleges of overseas students they depend on
A-level results: Subject by subject
A-level results: Sixth form colleges
A-level results: Comprehensive school results
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Chalk Talk: Two-and-a-half cheers for Gove's reforms from the history boys

Spare a thought for Professor Jonathan Clark, professor of British history at the University of Kansas and one of three eminent panellists debating the proposed new history curriculum at a seminar organised by the right-of-centre thinktank Politeia last week.
Luxury hotel with a difference: Essex University's Wivenhoe House is staffed by students
Universities allowed to increase places for brightest A-level students
UK business schools go global
As universities struggle to maintain student numbers, how did Surrey manage to grow by a third?
Give us a job: How graduates can stand out from the crowd
David Willetts: Why higher education is getting better by degrees
Host UK is helping foreign students combat the loneliness of the Christmas holidays
How to keep your head in a crisis
'It's all about being mindful and culturally sensitive'
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Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

In his first interview since 'plebgate', the former Chief Whip opens up just enough to concede that, in politics, you have to take the rough with the smooth
Corruption and the FCO: Blue skies, white sands, dark clouds

Corruption and the FCO: Blue skies, white sands, dark clouds

Special report: Met police call for criminal inquiry into former diplomat's Cayman Islands rule
Fallen angel: Winona Ryder on bouncing back from her decade in the wilderness

Fallen angel: Winona Ryder bounces back

She owned the 1990s... but then she disappeared. Now, Ms Ryder is back with quite the bang in her latest role, as the wife of a notorious real-life Mob hitman.
Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer
Rev Richard Coles: 'I don’t have any concerns that God is cross with me for being gay and eventually the Church won’t either'

Rev Richard Coles on the Church and homosexuality

The mellifluous, erudite and witty Coles is the nation's most pop-culture-friendly priest
'Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis': Civil war looms in Iraq

Patrick Cockburn: Civil war looms in Iraq

The governor of Kirkuk - one of the country's most violent but successful provinces - fears the worst
Written on the body: Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials

Written on the body

Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials
Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

The IoS marks the sixtieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reaching the peak of the highest mountain on Earth
A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

Rupert Cornwell: A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

The destructive power of tornadoes will be as nothing once the Great Plains' vast underground water reserve dries up
Every creature's needless death diminshes us all

Philip Hoare: Every creature's needless death diminishes us all

A 60 per cent decline in our national species should alarm us, yet few of us act. But to mind more about animals would reflect well on society
Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground - and the monks at the heart of it

Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground

Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma’s Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'.
Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

You can’t always depend on the weather – but you can avoid the pitfalls of the British barbecue by preparing an elaborate outdoor feast indoors ahead of time...
The Calvin report: Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance

The Calvin report

Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance
10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

Warren Gatland's squad fly Down Under aiming to do justice to the expectations – and hoping the Wallabies stay in the pub
The Last Word: Golf must end the hypocrisy before its halo slips totally

The Last Word

Golf must end the hypocrisy before its halo slips totally