English in the News
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- Shakespeare teaching course launched for actors - BBC, Friday March 30, 2007
Shakespearean actors are swapping the theatre for the classroom in a unique partnership between the Royal Shakespeare Company and the University of Warwick.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Wiki man - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 30, 2007
It can boost pupils' writing and teach how to work in groups - meet the new web-sharing concept that's taking off in schools, say Alison Norrington and Stephen Manning.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Frustrating puzzle of the literary lists - Times Educational Supplement, Thursday March 29, 2007
Consultation on the secondary curriculum review ends on April 30, so there's still time for voices to be heard - especially on the decision to keep lists of prescribed authors, against the initial advice of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the wishes of English teachers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New Diplomas move a step closer - BBC, Wednesday March 28, 2007
The biggest shake-up of England's exam system for a generation has come a step closer, with the announcement of who will help bring in the new Diplomas.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 100 schools make their own news - BBC, Thursday March 22, 2007
The prime minister is just one of the many guests being interviewed by school pupils around the UK during the finale of a BBC project. More than 100 schools from the Outer Hebrides to Jersey have been learning how to make TV, radio and online reports as part of BBC News School Report. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Longer nursery hours, 3,500 children's centres and an extended school day - The Guardian, Thursday March 22, 2007
Teaching unions greeted the promise of continued above-inflation funding for education in England over the next four years with relief.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'Phase out' national school tests - BBC, Wednesday March 21, 2007
Blanket national tests at the ages of seven, 11 and 14 could be phased out, the head of the schools exams authority in England has suggested.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Watchdog proposes end to national primary school tests - The Guardian, Wednesday March 21, 2007
The exam watchdog has placed a question mark over the future of national pupil tests in primary schools in England, potentially heralding the end of school league tables.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - It?s time to abandon school test regime, says exam watchdog - The Times, Wednesday March 21, 2007
Key Stage tests for children aged 7, 11 and 14 should be replaced with a system that randomly selects only some pupils to take the national curriculum papers, the Government's chief examinations watchdog will say today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - English GCSE easier, experts say - BBC, Friday March 16, 2007
Aspects of GCSE English - a core subject taken by more than 700,000 students a year - have become easier recently, the exams regulator says.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - ?Dumbed-down? English GCSE fail to challenge pupils, says watchdog - The Times, Friday March 16, 2007
English GCSE examinations have been dumbed down, with too many predictable questions that allow children to rattle off answers learnt parrot fashion, a government watchdog suggested yesterday.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents urged to read to children - BBC, Thursday March 15, 2007
Parents are being urged to read more to children as part of a new government parenting strategy in England.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK must embrace 'modern' English, report warns - The Guardian, Thursday March 15, 2007
The UK needs to abandon its outdated attitudes to English and embrace new forms of the language to maintain its influence in the global market, the leftwing thinktank Demos said today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - BBC suspends net learning project - BBC, Wednesday March 14, 2007
The BBC Trust has announced it is suspending its online education service, BBC Jam, pending a review.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Jobs at risk as BBC Jam scrapped - The Guardian, Wednesday March 14, 2007
The BBC said it is unable to give any guarantees about the job security of around 200 BBC Jam staff who will be in limbo from next Tuesday when the online education service is axed.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boys need action novels to get them reading - The Guardian, Wednesday March 14, 2007
Every secondary school should put up a separate "boys' bookshelf" packed with spy novels and action stories to encourage more boys to read, the education secretary said today. Alan Johnson warned that working class boys faced an increasingly bleak future as they fall behind girls in English at school.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Call for boys' own bookshelves - BBC, Wednesday March 14, 2007
Every secondary school should have a bookshelf of "boys' stories" to try to encourage them to read and close the literacy gap with girls, ministers say.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Diplomas 'may go horribly wrong' - BBC, Friday March 9, 2007
The biggest reform of England's exam system for a generation "could go horribly wrong", Education Secretary Alan Johnson has warned.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School exam costs 'getting worse' - BBC, Friday March 9, 2007
Rising exam costs mean some schools are spending more on putting pupils through exams than on books, head teachers say.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Report finds shortfall in nursery language and literacy standards - The Guardian, Tuesday March 6, 2007
Language and literacy standards among three to five-year-olds fell short in a third of English nurseries and schools, a report from Ofsted warns today. More attention needs to be paid to children's speaking and listening skills, the school childcare inspectorate found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here