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Monday, 16 February, 2004, 14:17 GMT

UNIVERSITY 'ELITISM'

Clarke attacks unis on access
The Education Secretary tells universities they are not doing enough to recruit students from poorer backgrounds.

'Elitist' system deters students
University a goal for many pupils
Universities attacked over students' class
Elite uni aims to broaden its appeal
State school participation
Cambridge counters 'elitism' claim
Breaking with Oxbridge elitism
University supports home-grown talent
Laura Spence don blames families
Call for research on university drop-outs
MPs back bigger student 'bounty'
Fewer state pupils at Cambridge
More cash to recruit poor students
Private schools 'engines of change'
Aptitude tests interest Blunkett
Universities 'failing to widen access'
Heads attack Oxford 'special relationships'
Students say top-up fees cut access
Oxford: Problem is state schools
Oxford targets younger pupils
Oxford reaches out to state schools
Oxford grants for poor students

BULLYING

Overdose girl 'wrote of suicide'
A teenager who died after a paracetamol overdose had threatened to kill herself in a diary she shared with a friend, an inquest hears.

New action on school exclusions
Victims question exclusion policy
Bullying: What children say
Bullying claim after girl dies
Analysis: Expulsion changes
Bullied girl's mother backs change
Female school exclusions 'hidden'
Bullied girls who skip school
School bullying 'not inevitable'
Bullying cases 'frighteningly high'

SELECTION

Parent control through ballots
The debates for and against grammar schools can be settled in controversial ballots of parents.

Call to end London's selective schools
School admissions 'socially divisive'
Labour campaigners target grammars
Kent's selective schools compared
Councils told to review 11-plus

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