Oxford poetry professor contest kicks off amid growing controversy
Three candidates – Alice Oswald, Andrew McMillan and Todd Swift – issue campaign statements, as efforts to exclude Swift gather steam
Barcelona school removes 200 sexist children’s books
Other schools look to follow after Tàber school takes out one-third of its collection, deeming the books ‘highly stereotypical and sexist’
Dorothy Rowe obituary
Psychologist who believed in listening to patients, and could express complex ideas with brilliant simplicity
It’s sobering and shaming that teenagers know more than their parents about history
Adrian Chiles: When my daughter asked for help with her GCSE revision, I thought this is what fatherhood is all about. It turns out I have much to learn
Gilded Youth by James Brooke-Smith review – privilege, rebellion and the British public school
From Shelley to dandies to Orwell (perhaps) … public schools have produced rebels as well as shoring up elitism
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy review – the reality of school life
A teacher’s honest, personal account of state education puts individual children at its centre
Kate Clanchy: ‘Poetry makes children feel important, that they’re heard’
The writer and schoolteacher on poetry’s power to inspire the young
Plagiarism, ‘book-stuffing’, clickfarms … the rotten side of self-publishing
Scams are rife, particularly when some authors can rake in thousands each month – but high-profile victims of plagiarism warn ‘day of reckoning is coming’
‘I’m an Orkney librarian driving to a school when a wave engulfs my van’
My job as a librarian in Orkney involves hair raising commutes as well as running coding clubs and a community service
Okwui Enwezor: the Nigerian who confronted the European art canon
The curator, who has died aged 55, was the only person to curate both the Venice Biennale and Documenta, helped redefine what African art could be and provided a platform for the likes of Steve McQueen
Philosopher Mary Warnock dies aged 94
Lady Warnock laid foundations for special needs teaching and fertility treatment regulations
Oxford English Dictionary adds new entries: chuddies, jibbons and fantoosh
An Indian English word for underpants joins a host of Scottish insults after the dictionary crowdsourced regional terms
Do it yourshelf: the Jakarta libraries with book nooks on tuk-tuks
Inventive Indonesians are coming up with new ways to get scarce reading materials into the hands of youngsters
‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue
The long read: While I was growing up in Nigeria, my parents deliberately never spoke their native Igbo language to us. But later it became an essential part of me
Why reading aloud is a vital bridge to literacy
Advice that children should still be read to as teenagers makes sense, as they learn the complex gear changes between speech and prose