How I did in my GCSEs: familiar faces recall results day
The name of the exams may have changed over the years but the emotion of getting (or not getting) one's grades has not
Education in brief: DfE spends £1.1m on free school’s temporary site
More than £1.1m is to be spent refurbishing an office block that will house a free school for two years; GCSE English literature changes may be a barrier for less able pupils; DfE ignores 98% vote against Harris transfer in official consultation
Michael Gove’s monocultural version of the English literature curriculum
Lola Okolosie: Removing 'seminal world literature' as a compulsory element only serves to promote a nationalistic, ossified vision of England
No laughing matter: why the university novel is now more tragedy than comedy
Forget Porterhouse Blue and Lucky Jim, more recent novels on academia have taken a darker turn
Geoffrey Whitehead obituary
Other lives: Author of textbooks for students on a wide range of business subjects
University libraries: 10 global portraits
University library chiefs worldwide reveal the challenges they face, plans for the future, and their role in higher education
Teachers benefit from a dose of mindfulness
Plus how university libraries are flourishing despite online access to information, and how to choose the best higher education course; all on our online communities this week
University libraries are shaping the future of learning and research
Far from reaching its due-by date, academic library architecture is reflecting and predicting how we learn now and into the future
Should schools buy new children’s books or stick with the classics?
There's a balance to be struck between keeping old favourites on classroom shelves and exposing children to new writing. Some books don't age, but there is great new stuff out there, too
A more affordable way to get kids e-reading
Making e-readers more accessible is a great way of improving child literacy, writes James Bridle
Gove’s golden rules for writing: can you do better?
Open thread: The education secretary has laid down 10 rules to straighten out the writing of his civil servants. Tell us whether you agree, and what you'd add
Norman MacKenzie obituary
Educationist who helped found the Open University and writer whose books included biographies of Dickens and Wells
The Winnie app proves the pooh-poohers wrong
The decision to abridge Winnie-the-Pooh for an app is far from the assault on children's literacy the critics claim it to be, writes Anna Baddeley
We can’t shelter kids from sex entirely. There are things they need to know
Hannah Betts: There is a difference between seeking to avoid exploitation of children by malign adults, and acknowledging that sex makes up an aspect of their being