The state should pay for school leavers to work on aid projects during gap years, Conservative MP George Freeman has said.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has responded to the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget, which includes investment in digital technologies and a plan to bring driverless cars to our roads.

Teachers in some of the country's failing schools are to be given millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to improve their classroom skills, Philip Hammond will announce in the Budget.

Welcoming the Prime Minister’s announcement that the Government will work with industry to boost spending on R&D to 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027, Sir Mark Walport, Chief Executive designate of UK Research and Innovation said:

Theresa May has said the Government will spend up to £80bn on research and development over the next decade.

“For an advanced economy, the path to competitiveness is not to copy what others are doing. It is to do things that others cannot do, or to do things in different and better ways.” (Building our Industrial Strategy: Green Paper, 2017)

An anti-EU Conservative whip who wrote to universities demanding to know what they were teaching about Brexit was simply doing personal research for a book, it has been claimed.

A cross-party group of over 100 MPs have called for "urgent action" from Oxford and Cambridge universities to boost disadvantaged student numbers.

Learning transforms lives and increasing access to quality education will bring hope and prosperity to individuals, communities and nations, says Bridge Co-founder Dr Shannon May.

A Conservative peer and ex-chairman has blasted a government whip who demanded to know what university professors were telling their students about Brexit.

Ahead of a Westminster Hall debate this afternoon, Caroline Spelman MP says it’s in everyone’s interest that all refugees are able to learn English – and women must have the same opportunity as men.

Oxford and Cambridge represent a “social apartheid”, a former Labour minister has said as he revealed “shocking figures” on admissions of ethnic minority students.

British universities have demanded "urgent clarity" from Theresa May over the future of EU academics and students in the UK. 

Universities must guarantee free speech or face penalties from the new higher education regulator, the Universities Minister has said. 

Theresa May is facing a ministerial revolt over her plans to freeze tuition fees, it has been reported.

RAeS President, Sir Stephen Dalton, explains why now is the right time to consider the impact of its outreach programmes and look to future collaboration with industry and Government to support growth in the next two decades. 

A survey of 29,000 NAHT members showed that seven out of ten expected their budgets to be untenable by 2019, says NAHT General Secretary Paul Whiteman.

David Davis is reportedly calling on the Treasury to scrap historic student debt, arguing that it is hampering young people from contributing to the economy. 

The positive health effects of art are well documented. But much more can be done to incorporate this into our care system, writes Ed Vaizey MP.

On the fringes, panellists were all very keen to emphasise the importance of skills, particularly within the context of the industrial strategy, says Dods political consultant Andrew McQuillan.

Taxpayers are paying more to subsidise university students now than they were before fees were tripled to £9,000 a year, it has been claimed, in a major blow to Theresa May.

Britain will lose out on skilled labour after Brexit unless politicians can find a “positive narrative” about the country’s direction and values, a minister has said.

Students can choose a "frugal existence" to help cope with the financial burden of university living costs, a Tory minister has said.

Robert Halfon MP and Alan Mak MP spoke at the Apprenticeships Forum Reception last night at Conservative party conference.