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- Concerns over maths and English - BBC, Thursday August 24, 2006
Students have been congratulated on their achievements in GCSE exams - but concerns have also been expressed about the state of education.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - GCSE maths and English show rise in good grades - The Guardian, Thursday August 24, 2006
The number of good GCSE passes in mathematics and English rose slightly this year but there has been a further drop in the number of pupils studying modern foreign languages, prompting teachers' leaders to warn young people that they are harming their employment prospects.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Read any great software lately? - The Guardian, Tuesday August 15, 2006
Alan Johnson stresses the value of a good book, but schools prefer to buy computers. Chris Arnot reports Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Canon fodder - The Guardian, Tuesday August 15, 2006
It's madness to force-feed the classics to teenagers - it could put them off reading for life.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - This reading list fails the test - The Guardian, Thursday August 10, 2006
Anyone looking thoughtfully at the curriculum prescribed by Alan Johnson's Department for Education and Skills will be inclined to sum it up in one phrase: "Conservative". We trawl, predictably, from Austen to Wells, via Fielding and Trollope. Are 11-year-olds really expected to take in the 1,000 pages of Tom Jones? Even undergraduates find it a hard morsel to chew.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Minister secures place of 'heritage' novels on schools list - The Guardian, Wednesday August 9, 2006
Austen, Dickens, Trollope and two Brontė sisters are staying in. But Orwell, Hemingway and Doris Lessing may be removed from the curriculum for 11- to 14-year-olds, the education secretary will announce today. Alan Johnson has moved to quash reports that changes to the key stage three curriculum will mean a "dumbing down" of English lessons.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'No danger' of ditching classics - BBC, Wednesday August 9, 2006
There is "no danger" that schools in England will be forced to ditch classic novels to make way for modern works, the education secretary has insisted.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teachers prioritising targets over study skills, research shows - The Guardian, Wednesday August 9, 2006
Most teachers focus their efforts on drilling children to pass tests and meet government targets instead of helping them to learn the study skills they need, research released today reveals.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Old English - The Guardian, Monday August 7, 2006
Is the once most venerated of disciplines headed, muttering incomprehensibly to itself, for the dustbin of academia, asks John Sutherland.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Dictionary helps student grammar - BBC, Friday August 4, 2006
A dictionary targeted at the student market is offering help with basic grammar and punctuation.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford publishes dictionary for undergraduates - The Guardian, Friday August 4, 2006
Oxford University Press has published a new dictionary aimed at improving poor grammar, spelling and writing skills among undergraduates.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - A lesson for the teachers - The Guardian, Friday August 4, 2006
It's no use being witty and knowledgeable if you speak too quietly for anyone to hear you.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Bad spelling 'puts off employers' - BBC, Thursday August 3, 2006
Three-quarters of employers would be put off a job candidate by poor spelling or grammar, a survey suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Nursery trainees 'cannot spell' - BBC, Wednesday August 2, 2006
Students who want to train as childcare workers should have to meet a minimum standard for their courses, a childcare and teachers' leader said. Too many students starting childcare training courses were unable to spell, said Deborah Lawson, chair of the Professional Association of Teachers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - GCSE coursework to be curtailed to stop internet cheats - The Guardian, Tuesday August 1, 2006
The drive to stop cheating was stepped up last night as the exam watchdog unveiled plans to prevent students from taking GCSE coursework home. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority said tests should be completed under controlled conditions in the classroom to curb online plagiarism and excessive parental help.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Coursework plan to halt cheating - BBC, Sunday July 30, 2006
GCSE pupils should be prevented from taking coursework home as part of efforts to stamp out cheating, the exams watchdog for England has advised.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Top GCSE pupils 'unable to spell' - BBC, Tuesday July 18, 2006
Pupils can gain top grades at GCSE English despite having poor spelling, a leading public school claims.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Schools find way to boost reading - BBC, Friday July 14, 2006
Schools have found they do not teach reading skills well enough in the early secondary years, a report says.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New teachers 'in wrong subjects' - BBC, Friday July 14, 2006
Too many teachers are being trained to teach languages, geography, biology, history and music, figures suggest.... There [are] too few teachers of drama, English, physics, chemistry and design. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teacher training not matched to job vacancies, research reveals - The Guardian, Friday July 14, 2006
Too many teachers have been trained in history, geography and art and too few in physics, chemistry and even English, a new study has found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here