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Byline: hannah daly 'What are you going to study at university?' This was the presumptuous question I faced countless times last year, and almost every time a person asked me, [...]

Success has many fathers, but my own father, Michael Young, can reasonably claim some of the credit for the Open University. According to his initial idea, which he first floated [...]

Byline: Camilla Turner EDUCATION EDITOR THE head of the Open University broke down in front of staff, defending his policies to try to save the institution. In an emotional plea [...]

Byline: SIMON HEFFER In this season of carols, thoughts turn to the chapel of King's College, Cambridge. On Christmas Eve its service of nine lessons and carols will be heard [...]

Tidying the kitchen the other day, I glance up to see my 16-year-old son, Aaron, framing the doorway. His furrowed eyebrows and pleated lip suggest to me his intentions are [...]

Byline: Interview by Olivia Parker 'I live a bisected existence for most of the year. During the summer months, my wife, Jenny, and I repair to our house in north [...]

Byline: Jim Whites From what I recall of my time stacking shelves at a supermarket during university vacations, I really did suffer from an attitude problem. Everything I did was [...]

Byline: Lucy Jones and Harry Mount The email that arrived one morning asking me to participate in Christmas University Challenge – a special mini series for graduates – was, to [...]

STAY Lizzie Ellis Southampton, aged 18 This time last year I was planning to have a gap year because my AS grades weren't what I wanted. Then I had some [...]

Byline: Graham Norton Dear Graham I really fancy a guy at college and I have a feeling he likes me. We spend huge amounts of time together - laughing mainly. [...]

Byline: Graham Norton Dear Graham I left university last year and have not got a job yet. I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. [...]