English in the News
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- Parents 'shunning bedtime story' - BBC, Thursday October 19, 2006
One in 10 parents of UK primary school pupils never reads to their children, according to a survey.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parcel book club 'boosts reading' - BBC, Tuesday September 16, 2008
A reading scheme which sends parcels of books to foster children struggling with literacy helps them improve at twice the usual rate, researchers find.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Paperless classroom becoming a reality - The Guardian, Wednesday June 10, 2009
Information available to pupils digitally on the up; one million children still have no computer at homeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Painful lessons of war handed on - BBC, Thursday November 9, 2006
When 13-year-old Rebecca Sullivan penned a war poem for a homework assignment she thought only her teacher would see it. But the piece entitled There Lie Forgotten Men is now to be heard by thousands when she reads it out at the country's biggest Armistice Day service. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford publishes dictionary for undergraduates - The Guardian, Friday August 4, 2006
Oxford University Press has published a new dictionary aimed at improving poor grammar, spelling and writing skills among undergraduates.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford professor of poetry Ruth Padel resigns after smear allegations - The Guardian, Monday May 25, 2009
First woman elected Oxford's professor of poetry resigns amid claims she tipped off journalists about allegations that her rival for the post, Derek Walcott, had sexually harassed studentsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford poetry professorship re-run begins - The Guardian, Monday April 19, 2010
Britain's other election – for a successor to WH Auden, Robert Graves and Seamus Heaney as Oxford university's professor of poetry – today became a three-way race. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford poetry job up for grabs again following 'smear campaign' controversy - Daily Telegraph, Saturday January 9, 2010
Plans have finally been drawn up for election of a new Professor of Poetry at Oxford University following last year's alleged smear campaign involving Ruth Padel and Derek Walcott.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford plans its own English test - BBC, Monday April 10, 2006
Oxford University is considering an aptitude test for its English courses, to select the brightest pupils from a growing number achieving top A-levels.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford finalists are 'little better than A level students', claim tutors - Daily Telegraph, Sunday January 22, 2012
They are supposed to be the brightest in Britain. But some Oxford University students show a “distressing” grasp of their subjects and the answers to their final exams are often little better than A-level standard, according to their tutors.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford dictionary botch sparks anger in Bangalore - The Guardian, Monday May 21, 2007
Oxford University Press has been forced to suspend the sale of one of its dictionaries after a reference to the city of Bangalore sparked anger in India.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford commas? Let common sense prevail - The Guardian, Monday July 4, 2011
So, American fears about the end of civilisation were unfounded. But there's no need to be dogmatic about the Oxford commaLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Overhaul of GCSE results could mean fewer grades - BBC, Friday May 18, 2012
GCSE results could be overhauled with a cut in the number of grades available suggests the exams regulator for England, Ofqual.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Over-reliance on technology is undermining spelling skills - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday May 22, 2012
A generation of “auto-correct” adults are struggling to spell properly after relying on technology to check their work, according to research by Mencap published today. Nick Gibb, the Schools Minister, said: "The failure to test spelling - as well as grammar and punctuation - in exams over the past decade has been a costly one. That is why we will award marks in these key disciplines in GCSEs from September.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Out of Art into Literacy at the National Gallery - The Guardian, Tuesday September 14, 2010
A pioneering project for primary school children uses old masters to develop narrative skillsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Our literature is the best in the world – it is every child's birthright - The Guardian, Tuesday October 5, 2010
English teaching will also be reformed to ensure that the poetry of Pope and Shelley, the satire of Swift and the novels of Dickens and Hardy are at the heart of classroom teaching.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Our ever-changing English - The Guardian, Thursday August 19, 2010
I get grumpy about crimes against language. But we Brits have been lamenting declining standards of English for centuriesLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Other countries are proving that test-driven punishment and reward is not the right way - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 24, 2011
To listen to the debate in England, one would think the adoption of test-driven accountability for schools was inevitable, Warwick Mansell writes.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Opinions sought on English test - BBC, Friday October 3, 2003
Anyone with an interest in the study of English is being asked how 14 year olds should be tested on the subject - after a fuss over the 2003 Shakespeare paper.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Onward march of the boys will continue apace - The Independent, Thursday August 27, 2009
A 0.2 percentage point drop in the percentage of pupils getting A* to C grades in English this year is not necessarily a catastrophe. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here