Literacy problems show Charles Dickens’s world persists, says minister
Schools minister Nick Gibb says literacy problems are still 'heavily orientated towards poorest'Poor neighbourhoods in England are still beset by Victorian-era levels of illiteracy, the schools minister has claimed.In a speech on reading, Nick Gibb sai...
How to teach … Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens would have been 200 years old on Tuesday 7 February. To mark the bicentenary, the Guardian Teacher Network has materials to help you bring his work to life for childrenCharles Dickens's Characters in Pictures is a guide to some of...
And lo! Gove’s Bible project did run into a spot of bother
Sources say thousands of copies are in a warehouse abroad after the education secretary fails to find a private sponsorA plan by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to send a copy of the King James Bible to every school in the country – each inclu...
Lake District festival offers bursaries to attract a younger audience
Applicants aged between 17 and 24 can get ten free tickets for Words by the Water at Keswick, one of the main attractions of the Lake District visitors' year.Audience sampling has shown that only about 5% of the people attending the Words by the Water ...
Jenn Ashworth: Why I refused to go to school
'Who wants to be locked into a room with 30 people dressed just like them, to be startled by a bell every 35 minutes, to queue for lunch for 40 minutes and be made to stand outside in the cold twice a day?' Jenn Ashworth most definitely did not…We we...
Letters: Cuts in education continue from libraries to outdoor centres
You have done us all a service by exposing the damaging cuts the government is inflicting on education (Report, 27 December). Those of us who work in education have been aware of this for some time. Let me highlight two areas. While the UK languishes i...
How to teach … Christmas
The Guardian Teacher Network this week is full of festive resources to keep pupils engagedYour lesson plans are likely to go out of the window this week as pre-Christmas excitement takes hold of your pupils.But do not fear – the Guardian Teacher Netw...
Who needs libraries
… when you've got flash cards and phonic flipcharts?Ros Asquith
Letters: The King James Bible and eternal copyright
Michael Gove and the government are making a gift of the King James Bible to every school in the UK (Report, 25 November) but continue to restrict how we use it. The crown has a perpetual copyright on the King James Bible, through "letters patent" orig...
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,...
Leeds academy unveils mural of Carol Ann Duffy’s Mrs Schofield’s GCSE
Penned after her work Education for Leisure was banned from the GCSE syllabus, a school has immortalised the poem in artWhat would Pat Schofield say? Carol Ann Duffy's poem Mrs Schofield's GCSE, written in response to the complaint which led to her wor...
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