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 [...]

Steve Jobs talks about Ping. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP Apple chief Steve Jobs’s trumpeting of the 160 million credit card holders on iTunes was a siren call to spammers. As if they needed any invitation. The most common incidence of scamming on Apple’s latest social venture, Ping, is the offering of free iPhones from a dodgy [...]

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 [...]

Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s, has been appointed to David Cameron’s special advisory committee. Photograph Sarah Lee for the Guardian David Cameron has assembled an advisory committee of about a dozen business leaders, including Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s; the ad man Sir Martin Sorrell and Sir Michael Rake, chairman of [...]