The Zoological Society of London producing material for kids even in time of crisis.

"To have a chance of getting into Harvard as a freshman, you have to show that you used your last four years better than the competition used theirs. We now see that Kashuv did not use his time as well as the competition, so he can’t go to Harvard."

@irinabokova on education as force for change.

An effective summary.

How to fight terror, by @IrinaBokova.

The appalling costs of college tuition.

"there is one certain way to make life harder for children to acquire Standard English: creating tests that fail them."

Tom Garvin on the death of UCD.

"only one black Briton of Caribbean descent was accepted for undergraduate study at Oxford last year... One Oxford college, Merton, has admitted no black students in five years ... at Newnham, an all-women's [Cambridge] college, ... black applicants had a 13% success rate compared with 67% for white students"

Judging by the newspaper coverage, successful A-Level students are mainly female and cute.