Universities must consider tougher checks on whether their international students can master English, the higher education standards watchdog has said.

Fourteen pupils at a school in Kent were injured today when part of a heating duct fell on them while they were sitting an exam in their school sports hall, police said.

Fourteen pupils at a school in Kent were injured today when part of a heating duct fell on them while they were sitting an exam in their school sports hall, police said.

Thirteen children were injured today when a school heating duct collapsed as they were sitting an exam.

The Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott has withdrawn from the election to become professor of poetry at Oxford University after "low tactics" were used to smear his campaign.

Disruptive youngsters are being allowed back into the classroom – to avoid schools having to arrange full-time education outside school for them while they are suspended.