BBC Education

Education Committee chairman sets out a warning over changes which could lead to the closure of some schools in Northern Ireland.

Closing half of Britain's universities is among the radical ideas being considered by Labour leader Ed Miliband, his adviser Lord Glasman says.

Harvard University has had its website hacked in a "sophisticated" Syrian-related protest.

Harvard University has consolidated its position as the richest university in the world - with the value of its endowment rising by £4.4bn in a year.

A village in Devon has been rated the best place for families to live in England and Wales.

The deaths of two teenage girls who were among five children to die in a house fire has left their school "devastated", its head said.

Ed Miliband says Labour would lower the cap on student tuition fees in England to £6,000 if it was in power now, as the party gathers in Liverpool for its conference.

The annual scramble to secure places for children at the UAE's private schools is over and children are returning to the classroom.

English Literature A-level exams have been criticised in a report by exam watchdog Ofqual.

Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen is the latest institute to set its fees for non-Scottish students.

A teacher who stole Facebook baby pictures to make her ex-boyfriend think they had a baby is banned from teaching for two years.

Private school heads are being urged to sponsor struggling primary schools as academies.

Increasingly, UK students are choosing to study on the continent in order to save thousands of pounds in tuition fees, as Chris Buckler finds out in Amsterdam.

Glyndwr University in Wrexham plans to withdraw from the alliance of institutions making up the University of Wales.

A "new Brit School" could be set up in the North West by 2013, former education secretary Lord Baker announces.

Scotland's Labour leader Iain Gray has accused Education Secretary Mike Russell of having a "hit list" of college and university closures.

The number of overseas students coming to the UK has risen dramatically in the past five years.

A survey finds that modern children have a host of gadgets with one in ten even owning a smartphone.

A survey suggests more than half of young people do not think higher education is good value and are choosing to study at home to save money.

Muslim students facing dilemma over interest-payable loans