Showers and cloud kept yesterday from being the hottest day of the year. Temperatures had looked set to come close to Saturday's record-breaking high but a heavy mid-afternoon band of rain brought respite to large chunks of baking Britain.

Two of the country's largest exam boards have outlined their plans for a radical shake-up of the system as thousands of teenagers await their A-level and GCSE results.

A Tory boy elicits sympathy and a girl's gender fraud makes Shakespeare more plausible

Inside the tiresome world of student politics, delusions of grandeur run riot

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The action is out there but, asks Chris McGrath, does anyone actually know what's happening?

Figures suggest that £9,000 fees have shifted interest away from less selective institutions

Christine Fox was a sculptor whose output, over some 50 years, reveals her work to have been of national stature, versatile in subject, exploring a huge range of materials and styles. Walk the sculpture trails of Cambridge, where she lived, and her work is not overshadowed by that of such luminaries as Lynn Chadwick, Eric Gill, Barbara Hepworth, Denis Mitchell and Peter Randall-Page.

Teachers and parents demand transparent selection policy after claims of class bias

After the grand fanfare from Arianna Huffington, I've been slightly disappointed by the impact of her eponymous website since its arrival in the United Kingdom a year ago.

The Government's rejection of a free school that aimed to steer black youths away from gang culture has sparked a furious response from a Cambridge academic. Richard Garner reports

A group of anti-monarchy protesters who were arrested before the royal wedding lost their High Court claim yesterday.

Neanderthal man may have preferred domestic chores to a rugged hunter-gatherer lifestyle, researchers have said.

More than one in seven schools and colleges is failing to send any pupils to the UK's top universities, new figures show.