English in the News
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- Hardy, Heaney and Keats among Poems on the Underground - BBC, Friday January 7, 2011
Verses from John Keats, Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney are among those to be displayed on Tube trains as part of a project now in its 25th year.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Dick King-Smith obituary - The Guardian, Wednesday January 5, 2011
Prolific children's author, he wrote The Sheep-Pig, the basis of the film BabeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies - The Guardian, Monday January 3, 2011
Oscar nominee dies peacefully in hospital at age of 64 after long period of cancerLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Obituary: Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite - BBC, Monday January 3, 2011
Oscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who has died at the age of 64, had a successful 40-year career which spanned the screen and stage.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Could university cutbacks be the saviour of English? - The Guardian, Wednesday December 29, 2010
The end of subsidies and a focus on 'impact'-led research may force literary criticism to reconnect with the public imaginationLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The British Library embodies our civilisation - The Guardian, Monday December 27, 2010
The country needs more, not fewer, public spaces – yet the library service is facing vandalismLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ministers accused of free book funding 'partial U-turn' - BBC, Sunday December 26, 2010
The government has been accused of performing a partial U-turn over funding for a charity that gives free books to children.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Writers furious at plan to axe free books scheme for children - The Guardian, Saturday December 25, 2010
Philip Pullman, Carol Ann Duffy, Ian McEwan and Sir Andrew Motion round on decision to slash £13m government grant to the Booktrust charityLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - In praise of ... Booktrust - The Guardian, Thursday December 23, 2010
Through its gift programmes for children the charity distributed around 6m books last year to toddlers and teenagersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government withdraws all funding for book-gifting programmes - The Guardian, Tuesday December 21, 2010
Booktrust's schemes to give free books to children in crisis after public subsidy axed. Former children's laureate Michael Rosen said that he was "absolutely appalled and utterly enraged" by the news.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Unions up the pressure over Sats - BBC, Friday December 17, 2010
Three teaching unions have joined forces to urge the government to scrap Sats tests for 11-year-olds in England.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children to be given reading 'MOT' at six - Daily Telegraph, Friday December 17, 2010
Pupils will be given an ''MOT'' to ensure they can read properly at the age of six, Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has said.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - One in 11 boys leaves primary school 'unable to read' - BBC, Friday December 17, 2010
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends - The Guardian, Thursday December 16, 2010
Harvard and Google say they have developed a way to identify cultural trends over the past 200 years using a database of 5m digitised booksLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Half of boys, age five, 'struggling in basics' - BBC, Thursday December 16, 2010
More than half of five-year-old boys are struggling in the basics after a year at primary school, official figures show.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Nearly 1,000 primary schools fail to meet targets - BBC, Tuesday December 14, 2010
Almost 1,000 primary schools in England which staged national tests for 11-year-olds this year do not meet new minimum standards. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sure Start 'has failed to boost children's literacy and numeracy' - The Guardian, Tuesday December 14, 2010
Researchers claim early years programmes have done little to improve attainment of children from poorest homesLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - David Crystal: champion of the English language - The Guardian, Monday December 13, 2010
For more than 30 years the linguist has been offering us rich gems of information about how we speak and writeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK brought to book over our teenagers' lack of literacy skills - The Observer, Sunday December 12, 2010
The UK fared poorly last week when our teenagers' reading skills were ranked against those of 64 other nations, including those of our main competitors.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - When will English come to a full stop? - The Observer, Sunday December 12, 2010
There are predictions that, like Latin before it, English must inevitably lose its global dominance. Robert McCrum is not convincedLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here