University admissions service broke data laws over targeted advertising
Ucas Media made young applicants feel obliged to let it use their information for commercial purposes, Information Commissioner’s Office rules
Three ways to use Minecraft imaginatively in the classroom
From getting students to think about careers to rebuilding their school, teachers share inventive ways they use the building-block game
Headteachers threaten to contact police over children playing 18-rated games
Group of 16 schools in Cheshire say allowing children to play games containing unsuitable levels of violence and sexual content is neglectful
What every man needs now: a six-pack from ancient Greece
Women have always faced impossible physical expectations. Now there is pressure on men to muscle up like Hercules
Minecraft free for every secondary school in Northern Ireland
Educational block-building game set to be distributed to schools in project devised by CultureTECH innovation festival
James Dyson Foundation gives £12m for creation of engineering school
Imperial College London will open Dyson School of Design Engineering, teaching four year MEng course, in October 2015
X+Y review – a charming mathematical uncertainty
Competitive maths + teenage romance = an intelligent and engaging entertainment
BBC Micro Bit will complement Raspberry Pi not compete with it
‘Personal coding device’ will be given to one million British schoolchildren in the autumn, with the hope of stimulating their interest in computer programming
James McAvoy: ‘Government doesn’t care about upward mobility’ via the arts
Announcing the Olivier theatre awards shortlist, actor says removing access to arts education will deny young people life-changing experiences
We won’t get more engineering students by lowering tuition fees
Outreach in schools isn’t working either – engineering needs a rebrand that shows how valuable and exciting the subject really is
Why reading and writing on paper can be better for your brain
Some tests show that reading from a hard copy allows better concentration, while taking longhand notes versus typing onto laptops increases conceptual understanding and retention
Don’t be smupid: a glossary for the extreme present
Are you suffering from denarration or monophobia? A new book, The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, helps to define our relationship with the online world
Digital skills teaching in schools needs radical rethink, says report
IT skills should be treated as being as important as numeracy and literacy in British schools, says Lord committee
Students used to take drugs to get high. Now they take them to get higher grades
The use of ‘smart drugs’ to boost mental performance is rife in British universities. So can we all benefit from ‘having an edge’, or is it just another form of cheating?
Why your Facebook friends could scupper a student loan
As private lenders enter the student loans market, eligibility to borrow for a degree could depend on people’s potential earnings – and social media contacts