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Imperial College London will introduce its own entrance exams because it believes A-levels no longer identify the brightest students.

A grammar school pupil who was rejected by Oxford University, despite a prediction of five As at A-level, has won a £100,000 scholarship to study at Harvard.

Universities hold significant doubts about the quality of league tables, but are strongly influenced by their position in them, according to a new study.

Universities will have to be more open about how they choose students to prove they are not biased, the government has said.

Students will no longer need a GCSE in a foreign language to get into Cambridge, as part of the university’s efforts to attract state school pupils.

Pictures of festive drunken excesses or risqué status updates on your Facebook profile might be damaging your chances of getting into a top university.

The choice of what A-levels you take may be just as important as the grades you get, new plans from Cambridge and the London School of Economics suggest.

Young people whose family has never been to university are being urged by the government to ‘be the first to go’.