EDUCATION

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700,000 students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will today receive their GCSE results.

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Teenagers from state schools are more likely to take so called ‘soft subjects’ diminishing their chances for competition for places at the UK’s elite universities.

The Daily Mail has reported that there has been an 'astonishing' rise in the number of youngsters studying traditional subjects including Maths and Science and a-level and the rise has been put down to Professor Brain Cox's acclaimed science programmes.

Tens of thousands of UK students who have not made the grade for their chosen university now face a scramble to get a place at university in September. A Levels Accused of Being ‘Too Easy’ After Records Broken for 29Th Year

According to reports in the Telegraph, record numbers of students are set to miss out on their first choice university and will have to go through the pressures of UCAS clearing. The newspaper reports that the University and Admissions Service is braced for its busiest day ever with an estimated 220,000 students competing for only 40,000 university places through the UCAs clearing system.

Tens of thousands of UK students who have not made the grade for their chosen university now face a scramble to get a place at university in September.Clearing matches students who have not received any offers, or been turned down by their original choices due to lower than expected grades, to other available courses.

The London College of Fashion will open its first ever shop in September, inviting fashion fans to discover the work of its alumni.

Sony have released a fresh trailer revealing new details about the highly anticipated Resistance 3.

Sharon Shoesmith was unfairly sacked following the Baby P tragedy, The Court of Appeal has ruled.

A lecturers' union have condemned a geographical, educational divide, after new research appears to show "two Britains."

The world's largest exhibition on the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, is to be staged at the British Museum.

A student summer ball made an estimated loss of more than £100,000 after a lower than expected turnout failed to offset expensive headline acts, reported Felix Newspaper.

Over 750,000 civil servants are set for strike action in support of the teacher's strike which will cause disruption to a million school children. The strike planned by teachers which now has the full support of civil servants is planned for Thursday June 30, with the dispute over public sector pensions.

Dramatic rise in UK applicants to US universities

Members from both the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action in a row with the government over pensions. Union leaders said they were outraged by Government demands for a 3.4 per cent increase in pension contributions by 2014.

The Government and academic institutions have been accused of keeping parents and students in the dark over the 2012 tuition fee increases. From 2012, universities will have the power to charge a maximum of £9,000 for academic courses - a treble in fee increases. When the legislation was passed by parliament last year, students were told they would receive clear information over the rises but the coalition government has been found wanting. One in three teenagers admits knowing little or nothing...

With youth unemployment remaining at near record levels many university students graduating in the coming months will face a slew of challenges unique to their generation.

After Twitter recently announced its willingness to hand over user information, the ongoing injunction and super-injunction debate has seen another dramatic turn, as yet another Twitter user has published information regarding 14 privacy injunctions.

John Hayes, the Minister of State for Further Education, seems to have lifted entire chunks from Wikipedia for a speech in the House of Commons.

Shares in Pearson were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the publishing group, which owns the Financial Times, said it would be buying Schoolnet for $230 million.

Presenting a look at the list of top 5 national universities in terms of the proportion of undergraduate students who have internship experience and the support available to them.

Interested participants may get a chance to preview the types of essay questions they are likely to face as part of the GMAT® Analytical Writing Assessment.

IBTimes interviews Jeanne Allen, the President of The Center for Education Reform, about education in Great Britain and the United States and about the rise of charter schools in the US and of academies and now free schools in Britain.