English in the News
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- A-level English literature 'getting easier' - Daily Telegraph, Friday September 23, 2011
A-level exams in English literature have dumbed down because serious novels have been switched for more childish ones, a report concluded.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Bodleian Library shows off treasures, from Magna Carta to Shakespeare - The Guardian, Sunday September 25, 2011
Oxford library to ask exhibition visitors which items deserve permanent display - including a First Folio it once threw awayLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - We're all film-makers now – and the Smith review must recognise that - The Guardian, Sunday September 25, 2011
Studying film is still often seen as lightweight. But in 2011 it's arguably as important as literature and scienceLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The children who cannot create a long sentence - BBC, Wednesday September 28, 2011
In socially deprived areas more than 50% of children begin school without the ability to speak in long sentences, which experts say can lead to problems in later life. Schools across England are taking part in a day without pens to tackle this speech deficit.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Thousands of schoolchildren 'failing in the three-Rs' - Daily Telegraph, Thursday September 29, 2011
More than 80,000 seven-year-olds are struggling to read after three years of primary school, official figures show.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ofsted tightens rules for rating schools as outstanding - The Guardian, Friday September 30, 2011
Inspectors have been told to pay more attention to pupils' behaviour, the quality of teaching, and children's ability to readLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - England's school curriculum review sparks debate - The Guardian, Monday October 3, 2011
New National Curriculum: draft programme of study for English delayed. Speaking and listening looked like it would have a traditionalist flavour, emphasising "standard English"Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - It's not so easy to establish the study of film in our schools - The Guardian, Thursday October 6, 2011
Most teachers either don't feel they have permission to teach the subject, or don't know howLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New GCSE controlled assessments are 'hindering children's learning' - The Guardian, Friday October 7, 2011
Study by qualifications quango Ofqual shows that reforms to GCSE coursework have reduced teaching and learning timeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ofqual: 'wide-spread concerns' over controlled assessment - Daily Telegraph, Friday October 7, 2011
A decision to scrap traditional GCSE coursework has damaged children’s education and caused chaos in schools, according to the official exams watchdog.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Anthony Horowitz fans gather to break a world reading relay record - The Guardian, Friday October 7, 2011
Antony Horowitz's new short story,The Double Eagle Has Landed is at the heart of a record-breaking reading attempt. [You can read the story yourself on the Guardian site]
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - People of Britain, it's time to carve a few lines of poetry into your wheelbarrow - The Guardian, Sunday October 9, 2011
Winning Words is a great opportunity to have billboards saying 'Downward to darkness, on extended wings', rather than 'I'm lovin' it'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Novelist Catherine Fisher named young people's laureate - BBC, Tuesday October 18, 2011
A writer from Newport has been named Wales' first Young People's Laureate.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ignore the Booker brouhaha. Readability is no test for literature - The Guardian, Tuesday October 18, 2011
The Booker prize judges misunderstand literature and its purpose. Would they blame maths for being difficult?, says jeanette Winterson
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Digital textbooks open a new chapter - BBC, Wednesday October 19, 2011
South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Why do they keep trotting out this Looney idea about Shakespeare? - Daily Telegraph, Saturday October 22, 2011
A Gateshead schoolteacher's bizarre conspiracy theory has now become the basis for an entire Hollywood blockbuster, Terry Wogan reports
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - World Book Night giveaway: a night of Good Omens or Misery? - The Guardian, Monday October 24, 2011
Curl up with Pratchett, Gaiman, King or Austen for one night of fiction, when one million books will be distributed for free – from a list of 25 – for second World Book Night on 23 April 2012Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Harold Pinter's forgotten sketch rediscovered after more than 50 years - The Guardian, Monday October 24, 2011
Surprise find at British Library is the script of 'Umbrellas', part of a 1960 revue performed only once at the Nottingham PlayhouseLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Read all about it: Britain's shameful literacy crisis - The Guardian, Wednesday October 26, 2011
So rioters shunned bookshops because they didn't offer anything they wanted? That points to a debilitating exclusion from a civilised cultureLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Scrap reading tests for pupils aged 6, experts urge ministers - The Independent, Friday October 28, 2011
Leading literacy experts urge the Government to abandon plans for a compulsory national reading test for all six-year-olds next summer. [NATE was among the signatories.]
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