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- Penelope Keith bemoans poor use of English language - Daily Telegraph, Sunday November 14, 2010
Penelope Keith, the star of The Good Life, has expressed her exasperation about the poor use of the English language in modern Britain.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pen and paper exams 'could be axed' - Daily Telegraph, Thursday December 17, 2009
Traditional “pen and paper” exams could be scrapped in favour of computer-based tests, according to the qualifications watchdog. Ofqual said examiners had to make “the best use of technology” as part of a modern assessment system.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pedants’ revolt aims to protect English from spell of txt spk - The Times, Monday June 7, 2010
An Academy of English is being formed by the Queen’s English Society, to protect the language from impurities, bastardisations and the horrors introduced by the text-speak generation. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pedantic textbooks give pupils the pip - Times Educational Supplement, Friday November 17, 2006
English textbooks are in danger of killing off pupils' love of the language. One, singled out by an academic, introduces the novel Great Expectations by pointing out that it begins with a subordinate clause.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Patrick Stewart chosen to receive Shakespeare prize - BBC, Thursday February 3, 2011
Sir Patrick Stewart CBE is to receive this year's Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Prize.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Patrick Ness wins Carnegie medal for second year running - The Guardian, Thursday June 14, 2012
Winner of children's books' highest honour uses acceptance speech to lambast education policy and negativity to teenagersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents will be given lessons on teaching their video generation of toddlers to talk - The Times, Thursday May 10, 2007
Toddlers are to get lessons in speaking and listening as part of a government drive to reduce the worrying numbers of children who are unable to string a sentence together by the time they start primary school.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents who shun fairytales 'miss chance to teach children morality' - Daily Telegraph, Monday March 14, 2011
Politically correct parents who shun traditional fairy tales are missing the chance to teach their children right from wrong, an education expert claims.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents want tests, says Ofsted - BBC, Wednesday May 6, 2009
Parents want their children to sit tests at the age of 11, the chief inspector of schools in England says.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents urged to talk to children - BBC, Wednesday February 7, 2007
Parents spend so much time at work, watching television or doing household chores that they do not make time to talk to their children, a survey finds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents urged to talk more to their children - The Guardian, Monday April 3, 2006
Forward-facing pushchairs, dinner in front of the television and even central heating are conversation killers which are bringing out tantrums in the best-behaved children. The Basic Skills Agency (BSA) - the body charged with improving literacy and numeracy - today released a booklet as part of its Talk to Me project, urging parents to converse with their children to improve their behaviour before starting school.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents urged to read to children - BBC, Thursday March 15, 2007
Parents are being urged to read more to children as part of a new government parenting strategy in England.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents urged to read to children - BBC, Monday December 31, 2007
Parents are being urged to make a New Year's resolution to spend more time reading to their children.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents too busy to help children learn to talk, study suggests - The Guardian, Monday January 4, 2010
Children spend so much time in front of the television and computer games, and so little time with adults that one child in six has difficulty learning to talk, according to an expert appointed by the government to improve young people's communication skills.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents struggle to help with homework - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Five out of six parents find helping with homework too difficult, study shows. .... One in three fathers find English is toughest to assist with, compared with 10% of mothers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents of special educational needs children could get care budgets - The Guardian, Tuesday March 8, 2011
Green paper proposes giving families of special needs children more power to direct health and care plansLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents fail comprehension test - BBC, Saturday February 23, 2008
If conspiracy theorists ever got into education, one of the first places that they might point their suspicious fingers is the tangled undergrowth of tests, qualifications and assessment.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents back threatened Sats boycott - The Guardian, Tuesday January 26, 2010
Parents' groups support teachers who argue that the tests are not in the interests of children or schoolsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents and teachers pressure Clarke over Sats - The Guardian, Monday May 19, 2003
A coalition of primary educators and parents today launched a campaign to pressure the government to drop Sats for seven-year-olds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents 'wrongly blamed for speech problems' - BBC, Monday January 31, 2011
Long-term speech and language problems are wrongly being blamed on parents not talking to their children and too much television, research suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here