Abolish selection say academics
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Grammar schools should be abolished to create an education system that is fairer to all, says a report.
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Leading independent schools should set up private universities, an academic says.
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Senior UK scientists say a government decision to withdraw funding breaches an important point of principle.
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Catchment areas ought to be banned to prevent richer families buying their way into good schools.
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If presidents of some of the nation's top liberal arts colleges get their way, they will no longer be included in the U.S. News and World Report's influential collegiate ranking system.
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The recent decisions by Harvard and Princeton to drop early admissions have reignited a spirited debate: is ending the practice a recipe for making the college application process better, or worse?
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The government is to change a new doctors' recruitment system after an outcry from the profession.
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The government changes a  selection system for young doctors after complaints from the medical profession.
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Britain's leading scientific institution  said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a  possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty  banning human cloning.
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Dismay with the kind of work that has often been honored by the Nobel prize in economics has led even a couple of its winners to suggest it be abolished.
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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Education Secretary Charles Clarke rules against admissions policies followed by some Catholic schools.
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Universities should promote debate to stop the spread of extremism, say government guidelines
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Dozens of liberal arts colleges have decided to stop participating in the magazineâs annual college rankings.
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Educators and students say the University of Phoenixâs focus on the bottom line has eroded academic quality.
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A record number of university applications have been cancelled because students presented fake qualifications.
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Critics say universities' role as society's bulwarks of free intellectual exploration is being jeopardized.