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 [...]

Students hold on to their hats after graduating from Birmingham University. The CBI suggests top graduates could leave the UK if they are charged for their degrees according to how much they earn. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Tens of thousands of the UK’s best graduates would emigrate if ministers went ahead with plans to charge [...]

Ed Balls: disagrees with Tony Blair on the deficit. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Ed Balls today rounded on Tony Blair for his claim that Labour had been wrong to allow the structural deficit to build up during the last decade. The Labour leadership contender said Blair was mistaken in his apparent support of the coalition’s [...]

The poor on Wentworth Street, Whitechapel by Gustave Dore, 1872. Photograph:Stapleton Collection/Corbis We are told that Mr Cameron is ‘waging war on benefit cheats’. Currently that seems to mean attacking people like Ms X. In her 50s, caring for her adult daughter, she worked all her life until made redundant. Now with a physical impairment [...]