Russian literature is best sex education for young people, says ombudsman

Pavel Astakhov opposes introduction of sex education in schools and suggests reading the classics as an alternative

Nick Clegg, like Oliver Twist, wants more. But he seeks power not soup

Martin Kettle: The leader has turned Liberal Democrats from protest party into pragmatists and made sure he himself is safe until 2015

FutureLearn courses mark UK’s entry into global online learning race

UK's first homegrown Mooc platform launches with 23 universities offering free online courses to students

Will a master’s in creative writing get you a book deal?

Prajwal Parajuly left Oxford with a two-book contract … and some advice for potential students

Reading for fun improves children’s brains, study confirms

A study of 17,000 people from birth indicates that reading for pleasure improves not just literacy, but maths ability too, writes Alice Sullivan

The thousands of words we don’t know

Gary Soto: We can let them go, like passersby, and we're none the worse because of it. But if we're active, learning never ends

University of London abandons plans to sell Shakespeare folios

Proposed sale of the works will not go ahead in light of negative response from academic community, says vice-chancellor

Selling Shakespeare’s first folio: is this the future of humanities research?

To sell or not to sell? The University of London row asks stickier questions of academia and its funders, says Martin Paul Eve

Let’s save Shakespeare’s folios, but the play’s the thing – the Bard is online too

Jerry Brotton: It's possible to make digital versions of the folios Senate House wants to sell at a high enough resolution to see every blot of ink

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