Michael Gove’s King James Bible plan rescued by millionaire Tory donors
Education secretary will send a copy of the Bible to every state school after donors club together to save £370,000 initiative
Jeanette Winterson to take up writing professorship at Manchester University
Novelist best known for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit will teach undergraduates and MA students in city of her birth
All in a Don’s Day by Mary Beard – review
Frances Spalding dips into Mary Beard's entertaining blog
Culture coach: the week’s essential arts stories
Charlotte Higgins: It was the week that Maurice Sendak died and Bianca Jagger had a fight at the opera. Here are the past seven days' biggest arts stories from around the web
Why shouldn’t paganism have a place in RE lessons?
Liz Williams: Cornish schools won't be 'teaching witchcraft and druidry', less still black mass – religious education doesn't equal indoctrination
Student publishes a new Shakespeare text
We're not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b - but with the highest of motives
The Saturday interview: Professor Mary Beard
With her new TV series about the lives of ordinary Romans, Professor Mary Beard wants to tackle history differently. The nation's new favourite classicist talks to Stuart Jeffries
What is the real legacy of colonialism?
The conversation: Atrocities committed as Britain's imperial rule ended have been revealed in newly published documents. Writers Kwasi Kwarteng and Richard Gott discuss the history's legacy
Horrible Histories: too cool for school?
Alison Flood: Author Terry Deary says he wishes he could sue schools that use his books in lessons. Does he have a point?
High court stalls council’s attempt to introduce volunteer-run libraries
Plans to replace paid staff with volunteers failed to account for equality issues, but Surrey says proposals will still go ahead
Russian publisher refuses to withdraw Stalin notebook from schools
Officials criticise school notebook featuring former dictator on cover as part of publisher's series of 20 'Great Russians'
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 1950s
My hero: Stephen Haff by Peter Carey
'He was a very successful teacher, but the public school system has difficulty dealing with someone who doesn't fit the mould. So he left and set up his own tiny school'
Parent files police complaint after teacher reads Ender’s Game to pupils
A teacher in South Carolina is on adminstrative leave after the parent of a 14-year-old complained that Orson Scott Card's classic novel was 'pornographic'
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain – review
Jon Ronson takes the introvert/extrovert test
Don’t let children lose sight of the pleasure principle
Frank Cottrell Boyce: As Plan B made clear at TEDx, stories should be an essential part of inspiring young people
Printed encyclopedias were once a rare source of knowledge. But no more
Ian Jack: Information – 'the sum of human knowledge' – had a different shape in the era of the printed encyclopedia
Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett – review
Tim Radford on the bitter arguments about a language instinct
Encyclopedia Britannica in the age of Wikipedia
Dan Gillmor: The end of Britannica printing its encyclopedia is really just a footnote in the great story of online access to knowledge
Divine Comedy is ‘offensive and discriminatory’, says Italian NGO
Human-rights organisation calls for Dante's 'racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic' epic poem to be removed from classrooms
Encyclopedia Britannica halts print publication after 244 years
The paper edition of the encyclopedia has ended its centuries-long run, but is it a victim or beneficiary of the digital age?
Roddy Doyle: the joy of teaching children to write
Inspired by his friend Dave Eggers, Irish novelist Roddy Doyle set up Fighting Words to nurture the creative skills of deprived children – with a little help from some big names
An Australian canon will only damage Australian literature
Setting out precisely which books should be taught, and thereby defining a single national literature, is liable to occlude its true diversity
Sorry, there’s no such thing as ‘correct grammar’
Michael Rosen: Martin Gwynne may have fun telling people the rules of grammar, but language is owned and controlled by everybody
Boys closing reading gap with girls
What Kids Are Reading 2012 report finds children are now reading to the same level of difficulty across genders
Will Self to become a professor of contemporary thought
Maverick writer will be teaching students at Brunel University's school of the arts and its school of the social sciences
Academic ebooks can succeed but publishers must play their part
The era of academic ebooks is imminent, says Jonathan Wolff, but there are still improvements to be made
What Are Universities For? by Stefan Collini – review
Stefan Collini's defence of universities is heavy on hand-wringing and light on real answers, writes Peter Conrad
Agatha Christie cut down for language students
New versions of 20 detective novels produced for 'upper intermediate' English language learners
Teaching council drop Miss Rusty case
Relief for Leonora Rustamova as the General Teaching Council drops the case against her
Oceanhouse Media talks Dr. Seuss, book-apps and mobile edutainment
Stuart Dredge: President Michel Kripalani is keen to avoid 'predatory' in-app purchase models
10 books to help boost young boys’ reading
Young boys are often 'reluctant readers', so to help meet the government's aim to get more children reading, here is a Top 10 of books for boys, as chosen by expert Ellen Ainsworth
Literacy problems show Charles Dickens’s world persists, says minister
Schools minister Nick Gibb says literacy problems are still 'heavily orientated towards poorest'
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 children