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Editors' picks
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As the school leaving age officially rises to 18, Jessica Shepherd asks what difference it will make and talks to three generations of one family
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Crib sheet
Student rooms with a view | What should learning a language mean? | Rain falls on New York teachers' parade
Education news & features p2
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Exploring the evil in our midst
Some men and women love to study the men (and the women) who see women as evil
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Multiple choice
Do teachers' political views matter?
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'I can't afford to stay at university past Christmas'
Forcing his family into debt or giving up his degree: the stark choice facing Joe Stubbs, a middle-income student
Education news & features p3
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Where's the library?
Cartoon:
Ros Asquith on missing libraries in schools
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Anger at UCST
A grilling and a mauling for the United Church School Trust
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Letters
The truth about abortion | Trip into the unknown | A management mistake | For the record
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Do as we say, not as we do
Ministers see the teaching profession as easy game, says Peter Mortimore
Education news & features p4
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Listen up
The right level of student consultation is difficult to gauge, write Janette Owen
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Life isn't all ha ha hee hee
Stand-up comedy classes can help young people to deal with gritty life issues. But not everyone agrees. Andrew Shanahan reports
Education news & features p6
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On course to keep Britain working
As thousands lose their jobs in the economic crisis, colleges are being called on to help deliver a response, writes Peter Kingston
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The refugee
Aime Youba hopes his course will help his fresh start in life
Education news & features p7
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Ministers urged to 'back off'
An important new study says students in colleges are 'achieving more but learning less', writes Joe Clancy
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Time to have another go at individually driven learning
Central planning has failed. It has not spotted and filled the nation's "skill gaps" or raised productivity, or ensured economic growth by delivering qualifications, says Alison Wolf
Education news & features p8
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I climb things my way
Legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner tells John Crace about his latest challenge: as a museum curator
Education news & features p9
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Public spaces, secret weapons
Academics call for more courses to teach town planners how to prevent and mitigate terrorist attacks. Louise Tickle reports
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Longing for brevity
I'll keep this brief, as I know we're short of space, writes Jonathan Wolff
Education news & features p10
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Questions about interviews
Our step-by-step guide to the application process by John Beckett
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The art of using Facebook
There's no point in social networking if the only thing you can think of writing on your site involves how much time you spend social networking, says Harriet Swain
Education news & features p12
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And slowly flow the dons
Will the Bologna process make it easier for academics to move from job to job across Europe, asks Anna Bawden
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Musical chairs
Who's moving where in higher education
Education news & features p21
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Having a blast
Children with Asperger's syndrome are being given a chance to forge friendships - some for the first time, writes Rachel Pugh
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The insiders
Glynis Kelly, child protection officer, Cornwall College, St Austell campus
