Susan Elkin finds that cramming is taking over the so-called Easter ‘break’.

Christopher Middleton reports on the vogue for state boarding.

The readers’ forum that improves family life, edited by Karen Gardner. This week: How do I get a teenager more active?

Black and Asian students are less likely than their white counterparts to get a first-class degree, report warns.

Employers twice as likely to pay for staff to do foundation degrees at university than college, figures show.

High levels of stress widespread throughout further and higher education, a survey of lecturers shows.

Children vulnerable to eating disorders are being put under increased pressure by the government’s school dinner reforms, teaching union warns.

· Core values to include tolerance and respect· Citizenship revamped with full GCSE and A-level

What happens to a child’s education when they join the circus? Nadine Clark visits the Cirque du Soleil school.

A project to encourage schools to run fair trade tuck shops has been hit by new healthy eating guidelines. Claudia Cahalane reports.

Peter Wilby: New Labour’s education policies have undermined the goal of a meritocracy and the comprehensive principle now faces defeat.

The latest research from the Learning and Skills Council, the Government quango responsible for funding education after the age of 16, reveals that 41 per cent of teenage drop-outs ultimately return to school or college.

Hilary’s advice

In theory there has never been a better time to be a head teacher. In the secondary sector, salaries have soared in recent years, with £100,000 packages not unusual for the larger urban schools, while Brent in north-west London recently advertised for a primary head at £90,000.

Schools minister pours scorn on comprehensives and bemoans the demise of grammar schools.

Sixth-form colleges demand that the government change its new system for measuring performance because they say it penalises academic success and size.

Being constantly stared at is a small price to pay for good students, good pay and a good experience teaching English in China, says Alison Jewitt

Level of response surprises organisers in protest over loss of free language tuition. Peter Kingston reports.

Francesca Nelson hears why parents love private tutors.

A legal row at Exeter University between the Christian union and the student guild has wider implications for the future of faith on campus. Chaminda Jayanetti and Liz Ford report.

Ruth Kelly has had an almost entirely unsympathetic press about her decision to pull her dyslexic son out of a state primary and send him to a private school that specialises in the condition. We decided to find out whether state primary schools are considered to do a decent job in helping children with severe dyslexia in order to understand her dilemma. The answer (see page 6) is that they aren’t, which is why the experts are unanimously sympathetic to the former Education Secretary.

Addressing the 2004 annual meeting of the Higher Education Funding Council, its then chief executive Sir Howard Newby said that the low level of participation in higher education by those taking vocational qualifications “really isn’t good enough”.

Hilary’s advice

Politics, not education, has dominated the furore about Ruth Kelly’s decision to remove her 10-year-old dyslexic son from his Tower Hamlets primary school and send him to a £15,000-a-year private boarding school.

Open courseware, where some of the world’s best universities are offering free teaching, learning and research resources online, is a growing phenomenon. But will British universities embrace it? Shola Adenekan reports.