Head may rave madly over a student -- go ballistic here? (4,9)
I believe the answer is:
cape canaveral
'student go ballistic here?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'head may rave madly over a' is the wordplay.
'head' becomes 'cape' (I've seen this before).
'may' becomes 'can' ('can' can be a synonym of 'may').
'rave madly' becomes 'averl' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'over' is an insertion indicator.
'averl' placed around 'a' is 'averal'.
'cape'+'can'+'averal'='CAPE CANAVERAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cape canaveral that I've seen before include "Florida space flight centre" , "space reached from here" , "US space launch site" , "US space launch centre" .)