Two Oxford university graduates have become millionaires after selling their fledgling internet company less than a year after its launch.

Cousins Kulveer and Harjeet Taggar, who started their business while still undergraduates, sold their online auction management company Auctomatic to a Canadian web firm Live Current Media for £2.5 million.

Surveillance cameras could start monitoring test-taking students in Britain as early as this summer in an effort to deter cheating, the head of a British exam supervisors' body said Friday.

The closed-circuit television cameras are needed to help prevent students from using gadgets such as cell phones to cheat on nationally administered tests, said Andrew Harland, the head of Britain's Exam Officers' Association.

Students may also think twice about cheating when a test supervisor's back is turned if they knew a camera was recording them, he said.

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The National Union of Students at its annual conference has voted to drop its focus on opposing tuition fees.

Conference has decided that a shift in priority is required and that, rather than lobbying for a free education, the union should instead focus on attempting to prevent any increase to the costs already incurred by students.

SLP welcomed the recent Housing Act which aims to raise the standards for people living in HMOs (houses in multiple occupation).

The legislation applies to student accommodation as well as other types of lets, and its introduction sets minimum standards for different categories of properties. [ Read More.. ]

The Conservative party have called for a review of tuition fees for 2009.

The Labour government has promised a review within the next 2 years, however shadow universities secretary David Willetts commented: "A proper review takes time. We do not need to make a decision any sooner than the government suggests...

Medical schools in the UK have been told to ignore results from a test taken by 20,000 applicants this year after the examiners decided too many scored high marks.

The UKCAT was introduced by a coalition of 26 medical and dental schools two years ago to help them discriminate between the thousands of straight-A applications they receive.

Older women are more likely not to be accepted when applying to University, a study has revealed.

Mature female students are less likely to receive placements.

A UCAS study found, mature women were most likely to appear in the “non-placed applicants” groups and “withdrawn” and “no-offer” categories

Ethnic minority groups also made up an astounding 37.5 percent of all non-placed applicants.

Scottish students are to get taxpayer funded grants unavailable to their English counterparts. Every part-time student living in Scotland earning less than £18,000 will receive £500 - but those born in England will get nothing. Last night a Tory MP condemned the move as yet another "kick in the teeth" to the English. The grants are the latest example of how the Scottish receive exclusive benefits paid for by taxpayers across the UK.

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On the 1st December 2007 was World's AIDS day.

An estimated 73,000 people were living with HIV in the UK at the end of 2006, a third were unaware of their infection.

In 2006, there were at least 7,093 new diagnoses of HIV, contributing to a cumulative total of 88,627 reported by the end of June 2007.

Completing student loan forms can be a complicated process. The government are reviewing who is going to be in charge of student debt in the future. Lord Triesman (Student Scretary) has recently announced the sale of over £18 billion worth of student debt to the private sector.