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- Now on Offer at Selfridge's – Grammar Lessons - Daily Telegraph, Friday March 2, 2012
Something very odd is going on down at the Oxford Street superstore. Every Friday night, Martin Gwynne, a retired Old Etonian businessman turned teacher, is giving grammar lessons to the evening shoppers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Novelist Catherine Fisher named young people's laureate - BBC, Tuesday October 18, 2011
A writer from Newport has been named Wales' first Young People's Laureate.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Not so much a lesson, more a song and dance - The Guardian, Tuesday October 2, 2007
To mark National Poetry Day, Michael Rosen suggests fifteen ways to make a classroom poetry friendly Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Not OK computer: Whiteboard wizards would be better off with a book - The Guardian, Tuesday November 21, 2006
I am sick, sick, sick to death of PowerPoint, and sick of sitting at inset days being shown a set of slides with bullet points and having them read to me very ... very ... slowly.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Norfolk schools seek to reclaim derided dialect - The Guardian, Thursday March 23, 2006
Thass a rum 'un, bor, as Norfolk folk might say. Thousands of children are to be taught the county's dialect at school as part of a project to promote the much-maligned rural accent.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Nonsense that makes sense - The Guardian, Tuesday December 9, 2008
Why does creative writing in schools bear so little relation to what writers actually do, asks Diane Samuels
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Non-critical thinking - The Guardian, Wednesday September 6, 2006
Literary criticism doesn't have much to do with the literature anymore; it's all about politics, argues Jonathan Taylor Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Noise 'worse for dyslexic pupils' - BBC, Friday November 13, 2009
Children with dyslexia find it harder to hear in noisy classrooms than those without the condition, a US study says.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - No novels necessary for new-look English GCSE - The Guardian, Friday June 27, 2008
Pupils can choose to study biographies or travel brochures and avoid classic novels altogether in a shake-up of GCSE English unveiled yesterday by the qualifications regulator.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - No novels in novel exam - Times Educational Supplement, Friday December 7, 2007
Pupils can gain English exam pass without studying traditional books, plays or poetry. Pupils could soon be awarded the equivalent of a GCSE in English without having studied any novels, plays or poetry.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - No limit on A-level resits, watchdog rules - The Guardian, Friday September 21, 2007
Exam boards will continue to allow students to resit A-level modules as often as they like, the government's exams watchdog, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), announced today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - No holds Bard in the coursework wrestle - Times Educational Supplement, Friday February 9, 2007
Last summer, I watched The Tempest. Twice. I did so as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works festival and in response to the RSC's recommendation that all the Bard's works should be seen.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Nick Hornby opens Ministry of Stories to get Britain's kids writing again - The Guardian, Thursday November 18, 2010
Children will be lured in by 'monster supply shop' – and volunteer teachers including Zadie Smith and Roddy DoyleLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New twists of the traditional tongue - Times Educational Supplement, Friday September 16, 2005
English 21, the huge consultation on [how] to teach the subject in the computer age, is over. Hilary Wilce reports on a debate that gave a voice to thousands.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New teachers fail in basic skills - The Guardian, Friday June 27, 2008
New teachers are not being trained to identify children who are struggling with reading, and some lack skills in teaching spelling, the education watchdog warns today. A survey by Ofsted also reveals that many teachers fail to teach young pupils to write well and do not understand how to identify when a child is falling behind.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New teachers 'in wrong subjects' - BBC, Friday July 14, 2006
Too many teachers are being trained to teach languages, geography, biology, history and music, figures suggest.... There [are] too few teachers of drama, English, physics, chemistry and design. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New tables add to the pressure - The Independent, Thursday October 30, 2003
The Government is right to be worried by the lack of progress of many pupils in their first three years at secondary school. But it is wrong to conclude that the way to put this right is to produce separate league tables from the GCSE and A-level lists.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New spelling case sounds dubious - The Guardian, Monday May 26, 2008
Marcel Berlins opens a can of worms tiringly familiar to linguists and teachers. [And other letters on spelling reform]Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New school motto: Hit that target - BBC, Saturday November 3, 2007
Gordon Brown is very fond of school mottos.... However, I suspect another new motto will now be popping into headteachers' minds, namely "I will meet the government's target". .... This was the big headline from the speech. As The Sun, amongst others, put it: "Brown: I'll shut failing schools". Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New Sats blow as US firm is relieved of re-marking - The Guardian, Tuesday July 29, 2008
The government suffered another embarrassment over this summer's delayed Sats test results for 11- and 14-year-olds yesterday when it put its school exams agency in charge of re-marking tens of thousands of exam papers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here