Tongue tied
While the government insists immigrants learn to speak English, it seems to think Irish language activists in Belfast are making reasonable demands.
Teaching assistant quit in protest at Harry Potter
· Born-again Christian says book glorifies witchcraft· Tribunal told of refusal to hear child read
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Obituary: Influential decoder of the culture of ancient Greece.
Letters reveal Darwin’s caring, comic side – in between agonising about his theory
Correspondence database includes Beagle messages and notes to colleagues.
Philip Collins
Obituary: Academic whose books and lectures helped restore the reputation of Charles Dickens.
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.