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Young Academic continues to bring you best of the current student news with this report on the best academic institutions in the country... With ten of the UK's top 25 state secondary schools, including the top four, London has more secondary schools at the top of The Sunday Times Parent Power tables than any other region. [...]

Young Academic can bring you news of perhaps the most significant day in modern times for UK students... Around 50,000 students, lecturers and members of the general public took part in what is being labelled as the biggest student demonstration in a generation, jointly organised by NUS and the University and College Union (UCU). [...]

As part of the already featured Cultural Olympiad programme, Stories of the World: London, Young Academic can bring you news of an event at which you can challenge academics on youth culture. [...]

ActionAid is asking dance music fans to throw a party or club night – no matter how big or small – to mark World AIDS Day on December 1st. Donating a unique playlist of his current favourite tracks, DJ Carl Cox is appealing to fans to get on board and throw a party to [...]

With applications for City Hall’s London Ambassadors for London 2012 expected to exceed the 8,000 positions available, Stories of the World: London offers further chances for young Londoners to get involved in the excitement of London 2012. [...]

Foreign Secretary William Hague has given his unequivocal support to Amnesty International’s campaign to free the 2,200 political prisoners in Burma. The Foreign Secretary was photographed with Ko Mya Aye written on his upturned palm, a symbolic act of fearlessness and defiance in Burma. His portrait highlights the case of Ko Mya Aye, aged 44, [...]

Over the last 13 years of Labour we have seen the largest neglect of higher education of any government in post-war Britain. Yet again it has been left to the coalition to pick up the pieces of Labour’s shattered Britain and make the difficult decisions in the national interest. [...]

Amnesty International welcomes the release of opposition leader and prisoner of conscience Birtukan Mideksa by the Ethiopian government. [...]

Richard Hughes, drummer with the hugely popular British band Keane, was on hand to help pupils at Harris Academy Crystal Palace launch Amnesty International. [...]