English in the News
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- Mind games - The Guardian, Tuesday May 8, 2007
Should comedy be on the curriculum? Alfred Hickling meets two performers taking the art of improvisation into the classroom Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'In class, I have to power down' - The Guardian, Tuesday May 8, 2007
Children have been quick to grasp the joys of new technology. Why are schools lagging so far behind, ask David Puttnam Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Creative skills urged for primary - BBC, Monday May 7, 2007
Schools with a predominantly white pupil intake are being told to twin with ethnically-diverse schools - to foster better community relations.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - ?Two-tier? English GCSEs - The Times, Monday May 7, 2007
A separate GCSE for pupils who speak English as their second language may turn such pupils into ?second class citizens?, the exam watchdog has conceded.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads warn over exam 'meltdown' - BBC, Sunday May 6, 2007
Exam reforms being introduced next year will cause chaos and lead to a fall in standards, head teachers have warned.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tests 'reduce pupils to widgets' - BBC, Friday May 4, 2007
Pupils have been reduced to widgets on a production line by the high number of tests in England's schools, head teachers have warned.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - London to get ?15m extra for English teaching - The Guardian, Friday May 4, 2007
The government has pledged an additional ?15m to support the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (Esol) in London following concerns that changes to course funding would harm provision in the capital.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teachers to pick phonics schemes - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 4, 2007
Publishers give their own schemes top marks in self-assessment on DfES website after Government changes tack.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speak up, it's a library - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 4, 2007
Cor blimey, the British Library has launched an online database of English accents and dialects from the past and present.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - English teachers can think for themselves - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 4, 2007
Teaching has come to a critical state when a senior member of a subject association can accuse the profession of succumbing to the Stockholm Syndrome (TES, April 13). Simon Gibbons of the National Association for the Teaching of English says teachers are reluctant to embrace change because, like bank hostages, they have fallen under the spell of their captors - in this case government ministers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Schools are now 'exam factories' - BBC, Tuesday May 1, 2007
Schools in England are "exam factories" due to ministers' obsession with league tables and targets, a National Union of Teachers conference has heard.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Targets turning schools into factories, teachers told - The Guardian, Tuesday May 1, 2007
Tony Blair's education reforms have reduced schools to "factories for producing test and exam scores", a government advisor said today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Twits are top of the class - Times Educational Supplement, Friday April 13, 2007
More than nine out of 10 primary teachers read to their classes at least once a week despite the pressure of tests, a TES survey has found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Too dependent on being controlled - Times Educational Supplement, Friday April 13, 2007
Teachers are suffering from "Stockholm syndrome", a psychological condition named after a bank robbery where victims become emotionally attached to those holding them captive, according to the National Association for the Teaching of English.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84 - BBC, Thursday April 12, 2007
One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Commercials 'killing childhood' - BBC, Friday April 6, 2007
Teachers are warning that children are growing up too quickly because of pressure from advertising and commerce. Report from NUT Conference.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Gatsby adds glitter to A-level list - Times Educational Supplement, Friday April 6, 2007
English literature students will be expected to read more books and make comparisons between texts in the new exam.... Gary Snapper, of the National Association for the Teaching of English, said: ?Students are going to have to do more reading and they are going to have to be taught about narrative context more thoroughly. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Functional skills tests postponed until 2010 - Times Educational Supplement, Friday April 6, 2007
New tests for 16-year-olds in basic English and computing skills will not be taken until 2010, pushing back changes to other exams. ... The delay has had a major knock-on effect, with reforms to GCSEs in English, English literature, maths and ICT also held back to 2010, a year after GCSE courses in other subjects are due to start.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tests 'stopping children playing' - BBC, Thursday April 5, 2007
Five-year-olds are being prevented from engaging in traditional play as they are under too much pressure from the national tests, teachers have warned. (ATL Conference report)Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'Edu-babble' jargon under attack - BBC, Wednesday April 4, 2007
The "total vacuity" of educational jargon is to be attacked at a teachers' conference.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here