The third mass protests against the government\'s higher education plans took place yesterday as thousands of students took to the streets despite the

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Students around the country yesterday rallied in large numbers despite the snow, and largely without direction from a national leadership. Guardian

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Katharine Birbalsingh is the deputy head who earned a standing ovation at Conservative party conference for criticising a "culture of excuses" in state

We gather at Trafalgar Square at 12 and run. The protesters say they do not want to be kettled like last week in Whitehall. And so the students, a block

The third mass protests against the government\'s higher education plans took place today as thousands of students took to the streets despite the freezing

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The big skills debateMartyn Sloman ("Strictly demoralising", 23 November) must not have read the interview in Education Guardian two weeks ago in which

Combining world class education opportunities with the unique history, culture and the many public resorts, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts is the best way to spend a beneficial and amusing summer. 

It is, as one old friend says, the perfect face for a dog collar. There is something in Michael Gove's eager countenance and scrupulous politeness suggestive

James Dyson, inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner and most recently the super-fast Airblade hand dryer, is proof that a degree in design can quite

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The government is going to withdraw all funding for the teaching of science and technology subjects. It recognises that arts, humanities and social

Let it be admitted that student finance is a thorny problem at any time, and especially when the coffers are empty. Concede, too, that the Labour party

I\'m not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship. The last time I did a "heroes and villains" piece I chose Pope John Paul II as hero, on the

My grandmother got married in Bangladesh at the age of 14, and devoted herself to her seven children and lawyer husband. He always encouraged her to

The problem with the current proposals on university funding is that they are, in essence, fraudulent. Billed as measures to reduce debt, they in fact

I've just spent three days trapped in a Berlin hotel room discussing teenage genitalia with a group of TV presenters, actors, bloggers and doctors.

The new round of climate change negotiations that starts today in Cancún has none of the hubristic razzmatazz of last year's Copenhagen summit. It

There is an agnostic sensibility that runs through William James – in this sense: he knows that any claim of knowledge based on religious experience

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Lord Lawson\'s Global Warming Policy Foundation is this afternoon hosting a public lecture from Prof Bob Carter on "An alternative view of climate hazard

Taxi drivers have become the modern equivalent of the man on the Clapham omnibus. I\'ve conducted a totally unsystematic but long-term survey of them

The launch of the shuttle Discovery to the ISS, the International Space Station, has now been delayed to early in the morning of 18 December, UK time.

10.36am: The World Cancer Research fund points to its general advice on plant foods and its stats page, where people can click on individual cancer

This is an interesting video that brings science and music together in a creative way. "A Wave of Reason" is the seventh installment in the Symphony

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Episode four of Strange Quarks is out! Martin Poulter talks about the

Mystery Bird photographed at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Anahuac, Texas, USA. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]

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One moment you're being guided through the basics of evolution by the comforting presence of Sir David Attenborough, the next, a dinosaur prances across

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The government\'s own social security advisers warned ministers "not to go ahead" with housing benefit reforms that risked increasing levels of homelessness

Hundreds of schools are closed across Scotland after heavy snow, with the Met Office issuing severe weather warnings across much of the UK.

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Sir Philip Green, the retail billionaire and efficiency adviser to the government, is to become the target of a nationwide campaign by protesters opposed

The Office for Budget Responsibility has published its report into the state of the economy - with forecasts on every aspect of the state of Britain,

The only thing less fun than sitting with another round of pages to be red-penned and rearranged, is doing so while ice complicates the inside of your

Throughout December, the Guardian books team will be picking out their favourite Yuletide tales, and in the spirit of Christmassy bonhomie we\'d like

I can remember reading Raymond Briggs\'s Father Christmas when I thought it was a documentary rather than a piece of fiction. So part of the delicious

Far-reaching cuts to the library service planned for Oxfordshire may be illegal, according to protesters who have contacted culture minister Ed Vaizey,

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Amanda Craig, who is known as a literary polemicist and an author of sharp contemporary fiction, has just pitched into what seems like a perennial national

Disaster tourism tends to sounds a bit iffy but not in Cockermouth, which has played a blinder in this field since its centre was submerged a year ago.

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On 20 November I was one of a group of people who converged upon 6 Fitzroy Square, London at 7pm to celebrate the life of a man of whom you may never

"I want to write stories that matter, that have a real point to them. I'm not interested in vampires," says John Boyne, dismissing the blockbusting

So Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, is to be the chair of the Man Booker prize. Perhaps it\'s an elaborate plan to ensure total discretion

The artist Len Shelley, who has died of cancer aged 46, was as much a maker of fables as he was a maker of boxed tableaux. His art consisted of the

It was 2003, and I was on a book tour in Australia with my family. My stage version of my novel Skellig was to be that year\'s Christmas show at London\'s

A website with a piratical skull and crossbones on its home page does not, I must admit, fill me with an urge to leave the comfort and safety of my

I don't have a temper. To the point of frustration of others sometimes; even if I'm in an argument I'll just start laughing.

I'm not scared of

Inventor Pieter Hoff retired from the lily and tulip export business in 2003 to develop a product that he thinks can help save mankind as the world's

David Walliams on Philip Larkin (Radio 4) was a gentle, unhurried thing. Walliams spoke about

More usually associated with musical esoterica than international espionage, terrorism, or economic skulduggery, the world of musicology – which is

It's happening in Scotland too. Aberdeen city council is considering plans to get rid of its music tuition, its youth bands and orchestras, and the

As a teacher who spends every day of his working life trying to raise aspirations in working-class students from disadvantaged backgrounds, I want to

A Liberal Democrat peer and former party whip today urged Vince Cable to "bite the bullet" and ditch his offer to abstain on his own policy in a Commons

Vince Cable said today he could be persuaded not to vote in favour of his own plan to increase university tuition fees if it would help unite the Liberal

Ructions in the government over plans to raise university fees will be forced into the open today when Labour triggers a vote in the House of Commons

Vince Cable, the cabinet minister in charge of tuition fees, said today he was prepared to abstain in a key vote on the government's policy if that

Dozens of British Olympic medal-winners have made a direct plea to David Cameron to reverse the planned ending of the £162m annual grant to schools

Mariella Frostrup, the Sky Arts and Radio 4 presenter, is taking legal action against the Sunday Times over claims she "snogged" author Salman Rushdie

The protest at government plans to increase university tuition fees was not the only gathering of students in central London last week.

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I have worked in eastern Uganda for a number of years and have published on the history, politics and religion of the area. This should have given me

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A fistful of major new releases targeting adult audiences predictably failed to dislodge Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part

Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, by John Quiggin (Princeton, £16.95)

The financial crisis has disproved many cherished tenets

For those not familiar with the playing style of Peter Storey, a midfield fixture in the Arsenal side who won the Double in 1970-71, the best way to

Former British Lions hooker Brian Moore has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for 2010.

Moore collected the prize this lunchtime

My friend Dan Mokonyane, who has died on his 80th birthday, was a revolutionary South African leader, author, teacher and philosopher. He is best known

What training should a lawyer have, and how many people should be allowed to embark on it? The Legal Services Board chairman David Edmonds said recently

Lack of support from the west could force many poor countries to shut schools and sack teachers, depriving millions of children of education, a campaign

Edinburgh's education chiefs are celebrating after a legal limit of 25 pupils for primary one classes was approved by the Scottish Parliament.

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