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- Great Shakespeare educator dies - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 27, 2005
Rex Gibson, who transformed the teaching of Shakespeare in the UK during a career lasting more than 40 years, has died after a long illness.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Grammatically incorrect - The Independent, Wednesday June 8, 2005
Almost 40 per cent of 11-year-olds fail to reach the writing standards set by secondary schools. Is it any wonder, when many teachers would struggle too?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Graduate literacy 'worries firms' - BBC, Tuesday July 8, 2008
Poor reading and writing skills among graduates are a concern for half of the UK's top employers, a survey suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government withdraws all funding for book-gifting programmes - The Guardian, Tuesday December 21, 2010
Booktrust's schemes to give free books to children in crisis after public subsidy axed. Former children's laureate Michael Rosen said that he was "absolutely appalled and utterly enraged" by the news.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government to roll out reading programme in schools - The Guardian, Friday May 9, 2008
· Plan to target children who struggle to read · Pilot study shows consistent progress Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government scraps Sats for 14-year-olds - The Times, Wednesday October 15, 2008
Pupils in England are to escape school testing at the age of 14 after the Key Stage 3 tests were abolished yesterday with immediate effect. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government moves to silence literacy critics - The Guardian, Thursday November 2, 2006
The government is to stop funding the Basic Skills Agency (BSA), putting the future of one of the country's oldest education quangos in doubt. Ministers are blaming the excessively complex and bureaucratic education landscape for the tough decision, prompting accusations that they are the chief culprits.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government misses Sats targets - The Guardian, Tuesday August 19, 2003
The government today admitted it had failed to reach its target in tests for 11-year olds in English and maths for the second year running but pointed to big improvements in performance by 14-year olds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government misses key targets for 11-year-olds - The Guardian, Wednesday August 20, 2003
The government has failed once again to meet its targets for results in primary school tests in England and has a mountain to climb to achieve its goals for future years, official figures published yesterday reveal.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government launches phonics teaching guide - The Guardian, Tuesday June 19, 2007
The government today renewed its commitment to phonics as it unveiled a new teaching programme aimed at the under-sevens. The Letters and Sounds programme, which is available free to schools, has been developed by the Department for Education and Skills in conjunction with Jim Rose, a former schools inspector whose review of reading among young children last year recommended that schools adopt the phonics teaching method in class.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government denies making pilot test easier - The Guardian, Friday February 15, 2008
The government today denied reports that it has lowered the pass mark for tests in its "testing when ready" pilot.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government cuts teacher training places - The Guardian, Tuesday October 18, 2005
The government is quietly slashing the numbers of new teachers to be trained in England over the next three years despite ministers' rhetoric about increasing investment in schools, it has emerged.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government book scheme 'appeals to lowest common denominator' - Daily Telegraph, Thursday December 31, 2009
The list includes titles by Little Britain actor David Walliams and Portsmouth goalkeeper David James, but only two recognised classic - Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government advised to end mass testing - The Guardian, Tuesday February 12, 2008
Pupils should be allowed to sit national tests any day of the year, the head of the government assessment agency has suggested.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Gove to overhaul English - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday October 5, 2010
An overhaul of the curriculum will also re-establish great authors, including Byron, Keats, Austen, Dickens and Hardy, in English lessons and lead to a dramatic toughening up of standards in mathematics and science. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Gove orders review of primary school exams - Daily Telegraph, Friday November 5, 2010
Primary school exams face a major overhaul amid Government claims that teachers are spending hours “drilling” pupils to pass.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends - The Guardian, Thursday December 16, 2010
Harvard and Google say they have developed a way to identify cultural trends over the past 200 years using a database of 5m digitised booksLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Google bans essay writing adverts - BBC, Tuesday May 22, 2007
Google is to ban adverts for essay writing services - following claims that plagiarism is threatening the integrity of university degrees.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Goodbye Sats, and good riddance - The Guardian, Wednesday October 15, 2008
It's a relief the government has scrapped Sats for 14-year-olds – but is it a sign of a new, non-Blairite direction for education?
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Goodbye Janet, Goodbye John - The Times, Thursday December 1, 2005
Children will be taught to read using traditional techniques from next year after the Government today turned the clock back on a four-decade experiment with modern methods.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here