Teachers said the sessions were essential to continue to explain Government reforms

The chief of the Australian Army, Lieutenant-General David Morrison, was hailed as an unlikely feminist hero yesterday for telling officers and men who “demean or exploit” their female colleagues to “get out”.

The Olympic legacy means different things to different people, as we could see from the article on these pages earlier this month about the school that inherited the athletes' dining hall to use in place of its burnt-out arts block, .

John Williamson, who died of cancer at the age of 80 in Reno, Nevada on 24 March, was a pioneer of the 1960s sexual revolution as co-founder of Topanga Canyon's Sandstone Retreat, where nudity and free love were once de rigueur.

Officials admit diabetic Gillian Astbury suffered ‘appalling’ care on ward before she died

Student protesters at Sussex University are in the final stages of preparation for what could be one of the biggest protests in Sussex University’s history.

A Harvard study comes to a surprising conclusion on the source of clerics' radicalism

"Prepare for surprises and shocks." These were the last – and, indeed, the first – words in a wide-ranging debate on the environment at the Bath Literature Festival yesterday.

The flight

He's a 6ft 2in professor of history and not exactly a keen sportsman. Yet he weighs in at just 10 stone. What then is our political commentator's astonishing secret?

A jump in the number of women in the boardrooms of Britain's biggest companies was hailed yesterday by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable.

The former Scotland manager Alex McLeish believes there are numerous strong candidates to succeed Craig Levein, including caretaker Billy Stark. But Berti Vogts, who was in charge of the Scotland team for two years ending in 2004, believes whoever gets the job will be stymied by "poor players".

Gay executives running Britain’s leading companies should come out of the closet to provide “visible senior role-models” to gay colleagues, a campaigner has said.