Michael Morpurgo answers your students’ questions – live chat

The award-winning author joined us to answer your pupils’ questions and inspire a love of all things literary

National curriculum is damaging children’s creative writing, say authors

Primary school teachers are steering children towards “too elaborate, flowery and over-complex language”, a group of acclaimed writers will say in an open letter to the education secretary

Are you as well read as a 16-year-old Eton schoolboy?

The outgoing head of Eton has published a list of books he recommends for bright boys. It’s a shame it’s a so … Etonian

Boarding School Syndrome review – education and the pain of separation

A gripping academic study of the mental wounds inflicted by classic British institutions

A moment that changed me – the man who forgot we’d had sex

Donald may not have been able to remember our first sexual encounter a week later, but without him I would never have married my husband

Dalibor Veselý obituary

Inspiring teacher and historian of architecture

Tatiana Wolff obituary

Other lives: Pushkin scholar and teacher of English at Loughton county high school, Essex

Hundreds of successful women from the arts inspire the next generation

Miriam González Durántez’s Inspiring Women campaign paired girls from 15 comprehensive schools with artists, directors, actors, authors and designers

World Book Night: how poetry helps reluctant readers take flight

This year, the annual event to promote reading is giving away an anthology of poems for the first time, and the response has been extraordinarily positive

My big break: Ken Loach, Caitlin Moran, Lennie James, Grayson Perry and more explain how they made it

Are the arts today really closed off to anyone who doesn’t have the right background or financial support? We asked musicians, film-makers, actors, artists, architects and others at the top of their field how they got there

A timeless voice against prejudice: your videos reading Anne Frank

Readers around the world have been recording one-minute readings of Anne Frank’s diary as part of the #NotSilent campaign – here are some of them

Philip Pullman joins calls to scrap baseline tests for four and five-year-olds

Author adds voice to those calling for plans for exams be reversed, arguing assessments would be ‘statistically invalid’ and ‘dangerous for children’

The Old Boys review – fascinating but flawed history of public schools

While this study is rich in detail, it is hard to agree with its assertions that public schools improve opportunity for children in Britain

The war against humanities at Britain’s universities

Our universities are squeezing every ounce of efficiency out of lecturers and focusing on the ‘profitable’ areas of science, tech and maths. Could the humanities be wiped out?

Taylor Swift’s grammar marked down incorrectly

The Princeton Review has sniffed at the (misheard) lyrics of the pop star’s song Fifteen. But its ‘correction’ is more than five centuries out of date