English in the News
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- State urged to help deprived children to communicate - The Guardian, Tuesday December 2, 2008
The state should intervene to help bring up the nation's most disadvantaged children, to tackle a cycle of deprivation which has its roots in poor parenting, according to a report from two thinktanks.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Starting school at seven 'can boost pupils' reading skills' - Daily Telegraph, Friday May 25, 2012
Delaying the school starting age can improve children’s grasp of reading at the end of primary education, according to research from New Zealand
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Start school at six, key schools report recommends - The Guardian, Friday October 16, 2009
Schoolchildren should not start formal lessons until they turn six, and Sats should be scrapped to relieve the damaging pressure England's young pupils face, the biggest inquiry into primary education for 40 years concludes today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Stanley Ellis obituary - The Guardian, Saturday November 14, 2009
Leading authority on dialects and a pioneer of the forensic analysis of voice recordingsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Staff may face rap if students plagiarise - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 3, 2006
QCA targets internet cheats but fails to end confusion over what counts as acceptable help with coursework. Warwick Mansell reports: Teachers were given new guidelines today on how to detect GCSE and A-level coursework cheating by their pupils - and told that they could be guilty of misconduct if they accept plagiarised work.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - SQA reports highlight pupils performance in exams - BBC, Friday November 4, 2011
Many pupils who sat Standard Grade and Higher exams earlier this year struggled with basic skills, according to Scotland's exams board.... n English, knowing when to start a new paragraph and use a comma or apostrophe caused problems for some candidates.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Spending on books dwarfed by ICT - BBC, Friday February 24, 2006
Schools spend more than five times as much on computer-based resources as on books, an analysis suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Spelling mistakes 'cost millions' in lost online sales - BBC, Thursday July 14, 2011
An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Spelling mistake wastes £23,000 - BBC, Tuesday November 15, 2005
A spelling error in last month's education white paper meant it had to be reprinted the day before publication at a cost of "just under £23,000".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speech services review under way - BBC, Tuesday October 16, 2007
People's views are being sought for a major review of services for children who have difficulties with communication, speech and language.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speech problems 'hamper children's reading ability' - BBC, Friday January 21, 2011
Delays in young children's ability to speak and listen properly are leaving them struggling to learn to read and write, Ofsted has warned.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Special needs support promises more parent power - BBC, Wednesday March 9, 2011
Support for young people in England with special educational needs faces a major overhaul.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speak up, it's a library - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 4, 2007
Cor blimey, the British Library has launched an online database of English accents and dialects from the past and present.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speak the speech ... Shakespeare's plays to be performed in 38 languages - The Guardian, Thursday January 20, 2011
Globe theatre to stage all of the Bard's plays, each in a different language, as part of 2012 Cultural OlympiadLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sounds like this phonics scheme has started badly - Times Educational Supplement, Friday February 3, 2012
Minister rebukes schools for low take-up of match-funding offer
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sounds incredible - The Guardian, Tuesday July 10, 2007
Once upon a time, in a deprived part of Scotland, a plan was put into place to wipe out pupil illiteracy within a decade. Ten years on, it's worked. Kirsty Scott reports Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sorry, there's no such thing as 'correct grammar' - The Guardian, Friday March 2, 2012
Martin Gwynne may have fun telling people the rules of grammar, but language is owned and controlled by everybody, says Michael Rosen
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sorry, Ruth, you really have to go - The Sunday Times, Sunday January 22, 2006
The sex offender crisis may die down, but the education secretary is not up to the job, says Chris WoodheadLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Some teachers lacking skills in 3Rs, says Ofsted - The Guardian, Tuesday January 29, 2008
Teacher trainees in further education do not systematically identify or address the literacy, numeracy and language needs of their students, and some are constrained by their own weaknesses in these skills, the government's schools inspector warned today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Some exams 'harder than others' - BBC, Friday February 22, 2008
Some GCSEs and A-levels are harder than others, England's exams watchdog says.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here