English in the News
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- Poor literacy and maths skills leave teenagers ill-equipped - The Guardian, Friday May 7, 2010
One fifth of school-leavers so illiterate and innumerate they struggle to cope with challenges of everyday lifeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor children a year behind in language skills - The Guardian, Monday February 15, 2010
Reading to children and taking them to libraries can limit effects of disadvantage, Sutton Trust study showsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor basic skills mar progress - BBC, Wednesday December 14, 2005
Improvements in standards in primary and secondary schools in England are being marred by poor levels of literacy and numeracy, Ofsted inspectors say.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor basic skills 'costing firms' - BBC, Tuesday February 20, 2007
Millions of employees believe that their lack of basic skills has lost money for their companies and themselves, according to a survey. A survey for Learndirect, the adult training agency, highlights the extent of weaknesses in English and maths. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right - The Guardian, Monday January 24, 2011
Ex-laureate Andrew Motion joins exploration of Englishness in works that redefine patron saint in 'agnostic liturgy'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poetry should be subversive - The Guardian, Tuesday June 12, 2012
If Michael Gove's plan for English means reciting Tennyson in posh accents, it's nothing to celebrate, says Simon Armitage
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poetry in Motion's world - The Guardian, Tuesday April 4, 2006
Andrew Motion's public pronouncements on the study of British poetry are misguided, writes Philip BeadleLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poetic justice: Duffy tipped for laureate role - The Guardian, Thursday April 30, 2009
Carol Ann Duffy is expected to be named by Downing Street tomorrow as the first female poet laureate, the latest in a line that has included John Dryden, William Wordsworth and Ted Hughes.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poetic defiance and Romantic ideals - The Guardian, Saturday January 30, 2010
Does the Guardian know what it is doing in publishing the Romantic poets booklets? Have you considered that they might find their way into schools, and breed a generation of subversive and revolutionary young people?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poet Peter Porter dies - The Guardian, Friday April 23, 2010
Peter Porter, winner of the Forward prize, the Whitbread poetry award and the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, has died at the age of 81Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poet laureate castigates English - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 17, 2006
Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, will today call for more frequent changes to the writers and books on the curriculum to make English lessons less boring.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poet Laureate attacks curriculum - BBC, Monday June 27, 2005
The Poet Laureate has accused the government of missing a "golden opportunity" to set aside more school time for creative writing.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poet Christopher Reid talks about winning the Costa book of the year - The Guardian, Friday January 29, 2010
Christopher Reid on how he turned the death of his wife into a prize-winning poetry collectionLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poet Adrian Mitchell dies, aged 76 - The Guardian, Monday December 22, 2008
Inspirational poet, playwright and performer who was a natural pacifist
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poems you learned at school - The Guardian, Thursday October 8, 2009
Can you still put a poet to a famous couplet, or have you become perplexed by poesy? Take our quiz and find out ...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Podcasts replace essays in revamped A-level media studies - The Guardian, Friday January 4, 2008
Pupils beginning media studies A-level courses in September could earn some of their marks by creating websites, podcasts or blogs, it has emerged.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pledge to do more for dyslexics - BBC, Wednesday December 5, 2007
Children with dyslexia are to receive extra help in some schools in England under a £3m pilot scheme.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Plea for primary schools to improve pupils' handwriting - The Guardian, Friday June 9, 2006
Children who are not taught to write properly at primary level will struggle at secondary school and university and are also likely to find their poor handwriting as much a handicap in the jobs market as poor reading and numeracy, according to a report out today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Planned copyright changes could stop authors writing for schools - The Guardian, Wednesday January 25, 2012
Hundreds of authors including Philip Pullman and Anne Fine say government plans would drastically reduce writers' incomesLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pity Lost souls who sneer at Hardy - Times Educational Supplement, Thursday June 14, 2007
Why is knowledge of the novels of Thomas Hardy any better than a knowledge of Lost?"Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here