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- Prince attacks 'voguish' GCSE text message studies - The Guardian, Wednesday June 8, 2005
The Prince of Wales attacked "short-term, fashionable" trends in education yesterday which he said were threatening the "foundations of civilised existence".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prince Charles's elite teachers will bring back Chaucer and the Crusades - Daily Telegraph, Sunday November 6, 2011
The Prince of Wales is to create a cadre of elite teachers to bring neglected areas of study back to England’s schools.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Print is not dead - but it is fast fading away - The Guardian, Friday October 14, 2005
Young people are heading towards a world in which books and other traditional media have almost no place, writes Adam Fox The government's watchdog on teaching and examining, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), issued a booklet this week on the future of the major subjects studied in English schools....
This is appropriate: the book is history.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Private tuition firm to provide maths and English at state secondaries - Times Educational Supplement, Friday July 29, 2011
A private tuition company has struck a deal worth about £200,000 to teach English and maths lessons in five state secondaries in East Anglia.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prize incentive to help improve literacy in the Commonwealth - The Guardian, Monday April 12, 2010
As former winners, we acknowledge the truly unique contribution the Commonwealth Writers' prize has made in promoting literacy as a tool to empower and enrich the lives of millions...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Probe launched as examiners 'set same GCSE paper twice' - Daily Telegraph, Friday April 20, 2012
An inquiry has been launched after hundreds of students were forced to sit a GCSE English exam that was almost identical to one staged just three years earlier.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prodigy on a mission to turn children into lovers of literature - The Observer, Sunday February 19, 2006
She dashes off poems and reads Voltaire in her spare time. Now Adora, eight, is coming to tell British pupils how to write Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prof John Sutherland condemns 'ruinous' state of English literature at universities - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday June 1, 2011
The study of English literature in universities is in a “ruinous” state because students are treated as customers rather than being told what to read
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Progress needs patience - The Guardian, Thursday August 30, 2007
It will take time for government reforms to reading, writing and maths for seven-year-olds to affect results, says Donald MacLeod Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Public gives teachers a glowing report - The Guardian, Tuesday November 6, 2007
A recent survey finds public perceptions of teachers, and of teaching as a career, are quite surprising Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pullman children's book voted best in 70 years - The Guardian, Friday June 22, 2007
The opening book of His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman's epic trilogy of wonder and love, won the supreme accolade in its field last night. Northern Lights was declared the finest children's book of the past 70 years, handsomely topping a readers' poll as the best winner of the annual Carnegie medal published in that time.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Punctuation is essential. Period - The Independent, Monday April 7, 2008
Sir: It's a pity I've retired from my job teaching A-Level English, because I would have loved to have seen what my students made of the pieces by Philip Hensher and Bethan Marshall. [And other letters in response to the Independent's articles]Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Punctuation: does it matter? - The Independent, Friday April 4, 2008
In France, they complain that English writing style has killed the semi-colon; it’s too direct, they say. Two writers join a debate that has brought grammarians to a full stopLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupil tests 'should be replaced' - BBC, Wednesday December 27, 2006
Tests for primary school pupils and 14-year-olds in England should be replaced with teacher assessments, a think tank says. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said "too many" pupils left primary school unable to read and write and do mathematics well. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupil's game helps with English grammar teaching - BBC, Monday June 27, 2011
A pupil from Peterborough has created a game that is being used in English lessons at schools across the city.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupils 'distressed over spelling' - BBC, Thursday October 2, 2008
A primary school has stopped carrying out spelling tests because children find them distressing.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupils 'given wrong marks' in Sats tests, claim heads - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday July 5, 2011
Thousands of pupils may have been given wrong grades in this year’s Sats tests amid claims of widespread marking errors.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupils 'given wrong marks' in Sats tests, claim heads - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday July 5, 2011
Thousands of pupils may have been given wrong grades in this year’s Sats tests amid claims of widespread marking errors.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupils 'not reading with teacher' - BBC, Thursday September 3, 2009
A quarter of primary school children read just one book a year with their teacher, research suggests.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupils 'unable to use full stops' - BBC, Monday January 15, 2007
A third of children leave primary school in England unable to use full stops and capital letters properly, examiners have suggested.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here