Health Secretary attacks his critics – as opposition to plans among medical colleges begins to unravel

Starring: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Alex Kingston

New study reveals dramatic decline in private integrity; Public trust in politicians and business leaders hits fresh low

A degree may show you know your theory, but experience in the workplace goes a long way to getting an employer to offer you a job

Projections for 2012 suggest firms aim to hire management graduates, making such degrees more valuable than ever

In the multi-billion dollar universe of American college sport, the football coach is king. And no such monarch was ever more venerated, more successful and long-reigning than Joe Paterno at Penn State. The national shock at the child abuse scandal that brought him down was itself a measure of the esteem in which he was held; not just in the homely college town in central Pennsylvania where he did his business, but all across America.

The American football coach fired by Penn State University last November because of allegations of child abuse by an assistant under his watch died yesterday after weeks of battling lung cancer.

Sunday night blockbusters play second fiddle to unlikely audience favourite

It's been a dreadful week for free speech. A meeting at a prestigious London college had to be abandoned on Monday evening when members of the audience were filmed and threatened by an Islamic extremist. Then the president of a student society at another London college was forced to resign after a Muslim organisation called for a ban on a joky image of the Prophet Mohammed. Finally, on Friday, the author Sir Salman Rushdie cancelled an appearance at India's largest literary festival, saying he feared an assassination attempt after protests by Muslim clerics.

The professor and the painter:a marriage made in heaven

The professor, whose TV show transformed our relationship with space in three days, is the inspiration that industry needs to drive more students into science

Narrow nationalism is not what Scotland - nor the United Kingdom - needs in the debate about independence

Russ Thorne discovers what brought two successful scholarship applicants to the Durham Business School

International universities are weaving a worldwide web of opportunity for their students, Jessica Moore discovers