Down with the exam factories
Stephen Moss: VS Naipaul says Oxford taught him nothing. I'd go further still: universities are irrelevant and anti-educational.
Can a killer’s literary efforts tell us anything about his motives?
Blake Morrison: Cho Seung-Hui's literary experiments neither caused his psychosis nor purged him of it. Psychoanalysing them for clues to his behaviour is a pointless distraction from the underlying cause of the massacre: American gun law.
Stop! Grammar time
Understanding how language works is an important part of becoming an English teacher, writes John Hughes.
Great grooves and good grammar
After years when foreign language teaching was banned, Libyans are now queuing up to learn English. Ian Black reports.
How a new age of heroes could help boys read
· Minister wants special bookshelf in schools · 'Positive identity' seen as key to love of learning
UK must embrace ‘modern’ English, report warns
The UK needs to embrace new forms of the English language to maintain its influence in the global market, thinktank warns.
The prince married a man, and lived happily ever after
Religious groups attack circulation of books raising gay issues among primary school pupils.
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher and sociologist who blurred the boundaries between reality and simulation.
Report finds shortfall in nursery language and literacy standards
Language and literacy standards among three to five-year-olds fell short in a third of English nurseries and schools, a report from Ofsted has warned.
Julia Casterton
Obituary: Poet, reviewer, writer and teacher at the City Lit in London.
Arthur Schlesinger
Obituary: Pulitzer-prizewinning historian active in Kennedy's White House whose Camelot myth he promoted
English language award winners named
Main prizes in the British Council's English language innovation awards all go to products that use CD-rom or online programmes.
Escape to Bronte
Oli de Botton: What we teach in the classroom should be a glorious release from what some youngsters face - and the study of classic novels can provide this.