RATING world's best universities Times Higher Education, 2014. THE World University Rankings 2014-2015.

RATING universities in the country 1 California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology US 2 Harvard University, Harvard University USA 3 University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom 4 Stanford University Stanford University USA 5 University of Cambridge University of Cambridge UK 6 MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 7 Princeton University Princeton University USA 8 University of California at Berkeley,...

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50 best universities in America

Studying at the University is worth a fortune. For four years in an elite private institution like the University of Chicago (№4) and Stanford (№3) you lay out a quarter of a million dollarsEditors: Michael Noer, Zack O'Malley GreenburgStudy: Bethany Christie, Michael Garfinkel, Robert Mundy, Charlotte O'Gerron Noah ShifrinPrepared in collaboration with the Center for accessibility and effectiveness of universities (Center for collegeaf for...

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U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges top 100

Rank Institution Score 1 Princeton University 100 2 Harvard University 99 3 Yale University 97 4 Columbia University 95 5 Stanford University 94 ...

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Election 2015: Tories pledge new childcare places

Mr Cameron says the Conservatives have the most generous childcare offer of all the major partiesMedia caption Prime Minister David Cameron: "We believe in helping families"David Cameron says he will create 600,000 extra free childcare places if he is returned to power next month.The prime minister said Labour had a "brass neck" to claim they were on the side of ordinary working families.Under the £350m Conservative plans, the amount of state-subsidised...

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Children's centres need more funding, says Barnardo's

Funding to support the most vulnerable children is dwindling, says Barnardo's Support for vulnerable children in England is at risk as funding ebbs away, according to a charity's analysis of government figures. Money allocated to children's centres, which provide services to families, has fallen by 35% in five years, according to new calculations by Barnardo's. The charity wants the government to...

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Lecturers struggling on casual contracts, says union

Figures suggest a third of higher education lecturers are on temporary or fixed-term contracts    Too many lecturers are struggling to make ends meet on casual contracts, says the academics' union UCU. The University and College Union questioned more than 2,500 of its members on casual employment contracts in further and higher education. Of these, 42% said they had problems with household bills, 35% with rent...

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Graduates may face tougher loan terms

Graduates could face tougher conditions on their student loans because of uncertainty over long-term debt repayments, a report says. The Higher Education Policy Institute says the potential impact of low loan repayments decades ahead is beginning to affect universities' budgets now. The government says the Treasury will share any extra costs with the business department over a 30-year period. And this will protect other parts of its budget...

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Young jobless total lowest for 10 years

  By Judith Burns Education reporter 1 hour ago From the section Education & Family Young people in England are now meant to stay in education or training until they are at least 17 There are fewer young people not in education, employment or training in the UK than at any time since...

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