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While most school students face an uncertain future of dilapidated school buildings and funding cuts, one section of society already receives taxpayers' help to give their children the education they deserve.

Lecturers at Manchester College have called off planned strikes for talks at conciliation service Acas.

The national executive (higher education) of the lecturers’ UCU union was due to discuss national strike ballots this week.

Campaigners against "free schools" held a lively protest on Tuesday of this week outside football’s Premier League in central London.

A new report shows the recession is hurting young people across the globe more than any other group.

The Tory government is destroying the future of millions of young people in Britain.

Universities have been told to expect the worst cuts since the 1930s—funding could be slashed by 35 percent over the next five years.

David Willetts, the Tory universities minister, has told young people who find there are no university courses available because of cuts to retake their A-levels to get better results.

The Tories have been caught lying about their flagship academies policy.

The NUT teachers’ union unanimously passed a motion to fight public spending cuts at its national executive meeting on Thursday of last week.

Teachers at St Aloysius school in Islington escalated their fight for a school fit to teach and learn in with a two-day strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

The Tories’ Academies Bill could be law within days – because they are using special rules to rush it through parliament.