A “warped and sadistic” paedophile who blackmailed victims and shared abuse tips and images on the dark web has been jailed for 32 years. Cambridge graduate Matthew Falder, 29, admitted 137 charges – including rape – against 46 people, some of whom were in court to see him jailed. He coerced victims into acts including licking toilet seats and self-harming. ...

Children as young as eight will be put through mandatory times tables tests, the new Education Secretary will announce today. The policy has been resurrected by Damian Hinds after being shelved by his predecessor Justine Greening, in the first sign of a return to a more traditional approach to education. It marks the first time in 75 years that students ...

The earliest Britons were black-skinned, with dark curly hair and possibly blue eyes, new analysis of a 10,000-year-old Somerset skeleton has revealed. Scientists at the Natural History Museum have used pioneering genetic sequencing and facial reconstruction techniques to prove that the first hunter-gatherers successfully to inhabit Britain were far darker in complexion than previously thought. The groundbreaking discovery was made ...

It seemed like a fitting way to end the semester and celebrate the coming summer holidays. But now organisers of the ‘Solstice’ festival at Trinity Hall, Cambridge find themselves accused of “bastardising” the beliefs of a sect of modern day druids, who claim the soirée amounts to sacrilege. According to student Georgia Humphrey, a practising Wiccan, the decision to host ...

More than one in eight secondary schools in England is below the standard deemed acceptable by ministers, league table data shows. The secondary school league tables have just been published, featuring the results of the first pupils to sit new, tougher GCSEs in English and maths. Some 365 schools, or 12%, were below the new tougher floor standard. In 2016 ...

If you want to feel inadequate, then The World Economic Forum in Davos is the place to go. It’s crammed full of people at the top of their game whether that be politics, sports, business or music. There are multi-linguists, 20-something over achievers and people with an awful lot of letters after their names – and they’re nothing to do ...

Could augmented reality be used to highlight the important messages hidden in data? This is the challenge set by digital sponsor Rolls-Royce for the 2018 STEM Awards The Digital Challenge From design through to manufacture and into service, Rolls-Royce capture vast amounts of data. Data can teach us how to improve, but sometimes these lessons get lost in the complex ...

Parents are subsidising a new flagship “free” nursery scheme for three- and four-year-olds in England from their own pockets, a survey suggests. Nurseries are making up losses by upping fees for younger children and charging for meals and nappies, a survey of 1,662 providers suggests. The survey, by the Pre-School Learning Alliance, suggests only a third are delivering the hours ...

Working at Aldi is now as lucrative for graduates as being a lawyer or an investment banker, a new report has found. The budget supermarket chain is offering graduates £44,000 and a company car, which is the same salary as many of the country’s top law firms, according to the annual Graduate Market study. Graduates who win training contracts at ...

Search for Clearing vacancies online Download the Clearing app on iPhone or Android Results day is here, and for the 60,000 students who miss out on their offers each year, that means one thing: Clearing. Often paraded as the last resort for sixth form students who failed to get their grades, Ucas Clearing has developed a bad reputation over the ...