Angela Carter’s teenage poetry unearthed at old school
Author of The Company of Wolves explored myth and legend in work published in south London school magazine in 1950sThere is a minotaur crying with a dreary voice, a ship with death-black sails, chanting priests of Amon-Ra and a nativity tale with a qui...
Will Self to become a professor
Maverick writer will be teaching students at Brunel University's school of the arts and its school of the social sciencesSince graduating from Oxford in the early 1980s, Will Self's career has been nothing if not diverse. He has swept streets, drawn ca...
Michael Gove to send copy of King James Bible to all English schools
Education secretary will write a brief foreword in special edition marking 400th anniversary of its publicationEvery state school in England is to receive a new copy of the King James Bible from the government – with a brief foreword by Michael Gove,...
Computer gamers less likely to go to university, research shows
Report by Oxford University also reveals that reading enhances the likelihood that teenagers will go on to study for a degreeFrequently playing computer games appears to reduce a teenager's chances of going to university, while reading enhances the lik...
Top-charging universities admit too few state school pupils
Almost half of the universities that have announced plans to charge £9,000 tuition fees are not meeting targets on widening their social mixEight of the universities that have announced plans to charge a £9,000 annual tuition fee are admitting too fe...
Niall Ferguson: school history lessons ‘lack all cohesion’
Historian says too few pupils are spending too little time studying history, particularly in state schoolsThe Harvard academic Niall Ferguson has warned that too few pupils are spending too little time studying history – and what they do study lacks ...
Why demon heads of children’s fiction are role models for trainee teachers
Roald Dahl's Miss Trunchbull or Gillian Cross's Demon Headmaster demonstrate the exercise of power, study findsThey may be sadistic figures who hate children, but a study suggests that the savage portrayal of headteachers in children's literature posse...
