A new English Baccalaureate certificate will be introduced to combat a “dramatic collapse” in the number of GCSE pupils taking serious academic subjects, the Education Secretary has announced.

Is the big fall in the number of British school children studying French something to be concerned about?

Students Yun William Yu and Herman Tam describe their experiences in applying to come to London’s Imperial College, as new figures show the number of visas issued to students last year went up by 35% to 362,015.

Science is undergoing a dramatic resurgence in secondary schools as the number of pupils taking separate GCSEs in the subject rockets by almost a third.

Universities turn students away and declare themselves full as the number of places available through clearing falls by more than a third.