At 15 and three months, Arran Fernandez is set to become the youngest Cambridge undergraduate since William Pitt the Younger was offered a place. Photograph: PA At 15, most teenagers are struggling to get their heads around the algebra and equations of maths GCSE. Not Arran Fernandez. Next month, he will become the youngest student [...]

Craigslist has closed the adult services of its website and replaced it with a black and white censored logo. HARTFORD, Conn. — Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section. The section had been replaced Saturday by a black [...]

The best schools are still monopolised by the middle classes even when a lottery is used to help allocate places, researchers have found. Photograph: John Alex Maguire/Rex Features Middle-class families monopolise the best schools even when a lottery is used to allocate places, according to a study published today. Lotteries have been seen by some [...]

Study finds that white children’s social class affects their school-leaving grades. Photograph: John Alex Maguire/Rex Features A child’s social class is more likely to determine how well they perform in school if they are white than if they come from an ethnic minority, researchers have discovered. The gap between the proportion of working-class pupils and [...]