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- Millionth English word 'looming' - BBC Radio, Wednesday June 10, 2009
A US company which monitors internet traffic predicts that the millionth new English word will be coined imminently.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Rosen: 'Give children books, not SATs' - The Independent, Thursday August 28, 2008
The children's laureate, Michael Rosen, is a fierce critic of the Government's education policies. He's against testing – and wants pupils to be excited by literature again. Andy Sharman talks to himLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove: schools failing to promote the classics - Daily Telegraph, Friday April 1, 2011
Classic literature risks dying out in schools as hundreds of thousands of pupils are allowed to complete GCSEs without studying a single book written before the 20th century, Michael Gove warns today.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove stresses 'facts' in curriculum revamp - BBC, Thursday January 20, 2011
Michael Gove hopes top British authors and poets will contribute to the debate about which books and poetry should be studied.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove sets tough new targets for secondary schools - The Guardian, Wednesday November 24, 2010
Schools will be set tough new targets, with secondary schools considered failing if less than 35% of their pupils achieve five good GCSEs, including English and maths. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove orders Sats inquiry - The Guardian, Friday November 5, 2010
Ministers want to find out whether primary schools are drilling rather than teaching pupils. Tests for 11-year-olds could be scrapped as a result.... It emerged yesterday that schools made almost 23,500 appeals against this year's English and maths Sats results.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove in fresh attack on exams after GCSE storm - Daily Telegraph, Monday June 25, 2012
Britain’s exam boards have profited from a qualifications system that has “incentivised dumbing down” over the last decade, according to Michael Gove.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove attacks 'local worthies' who become school governors - and NATE - Daily Telegraph, Friday July 6, 2012
The Education Secretary made clear that he intends to shake up the current system of school governance - and attacked ' the man in charge of the National Association for Teaching English – who argue that it is oppressive to teach children grammar' Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove 'should axe A-level modular exams' - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday June 29, 2011
You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. At least that used to be the perceived wisdom until A-level modules entered the exam system over 10 years ago, says the headmaster of Taunton School.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Merriam-Webster releases list of new words to be included in dictionary - The Guardian, Thursday July 9, 2009
The irresistible power of the digital revolution to transform everything in its path has been confirmed, lest anyone still doubts it, by one of the arbitors of the English language itself.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Men 'just as chatty as women' - The Guardian, Friday July 6, 2007
Men and women talk as much as each other, suggests a study which says that, on average, both genders speak around 16,000 words a day - a fact challenging the traditional notion that girls are considerably more chatty than boys.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Meeting at the DfE - Not the Minutes - Michael Rosen's Blog, Tuesday April 24, 2012
Michael Rosen provides 'Not the Minutes' after a meeting at the DfE with Nick Gibb, Quentin Blake, Anne Fine about reading for enjoyment.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Meera Syal joins the set text set - BBC, Monday February 5, 2007
Meera Syal, comedian and writer, is joining the ranks of authors recommended for study for young teenagers. But heading for classroom obscurity are such illustrious names as WB Yeats, Anthony Trollope and Lord Byron. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Media studies grows in schools - BBC, Friday June 17, 2005
Increasing numbers of teenagers are opting to do media studies - with some dropping English literature to do so, a report from an exams watchdog suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Media matters - A review of media studies in schools and colleges - QCA website, Thursday June 9, 2005
QCA has published the first comprehensive overwiew of media studies in schools and colleges.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - McDonald's to offer 'A-levels' - BBC, Monday January 28, 2008
McDonald's has won approval to offer courses which could form part of an A-level standard qualification.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - McDonald's 'A-level' is launched - BBC, Sunday January 27, 2008
Fast-food giant McDonald's has become one of the first firms to offer its own nationally recognised qualifications.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - McConnell ponders exam shake-up - BBC, Friday September 1, 2006
Pupils in schools across Scotland could face new tests to prove whether they are competent in the "three Rs".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children - The Guardian, Friday February 11, 2011
Children's authors have expressed anger over 'insult' to their work on BBC programmeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Markers spurn 'discredited tests' - Times Educational Supplement, Friday February 11, 2005
A leading figure in the drive to recruit thousands of examiners for this year's national tests has admitted that there is a shortage of key stage 3 English markers, writes Stephen Lucas. Mick Walker,director of exams management at the National Assessment Agency, told the TES:"We are right on the edge in terms of recruitment and I would like to have spare markers."He said many teachers felt too busy to join the marking effort. The NAA needs to recruit 12,500 markers for national tests this year and KS3 English is the biggest challenge. Teachers at the National Association for the Teaching of English's annual conference in Manchester blamed the the shortage on the collapse in the tests' credibility after last year's marking fiasco.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here