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Geoffrey Hill wins Oxford Professor of Poetry election by landslide
'Greatest living poet in the English language', who celebrates his 78th birthday today, voted in ahead of nine other candidatesHis academic credentials and plethora of literary prizes have meant that...
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How the Glee factor is bringing British children back to school choirs
US comedy-musical show credited with renewed interest in school singingWhen English teacher Katie Paine opened the doors of her school choir rehearsal last term only 12 students entered the room.But,...
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'A poet of great eminence': Geoffrey Hill's landslide victory restores...
Triumph of 78-year-old will help dispel memory of last year's scandal-hit contestThe scandal which has dogged the position of Oxford professor of poetry since last year may finally be dispelled by the...
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My run for Oxford professor of poetry was crushed by viral campaign – and a...
When you poll 81 votes out of a quarter of a million or so, it's hard to put a positive spin on it"If you can meet with triumph and disasterAnd treat those two imposters just the same,Then you're a...
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School plan 'takes money from poor'
Leaked memo shows how coalition government ministers discussed raiding free meals budgetThe government was today accused of draining money from schemes aimed at the poorest children to fund their...
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Michael Gove fast tracks parents' schools
Planners to be told new establishments a priority as minister says 750 groups interested in schemePlanning laws are being torn up so that hundreds of parents can set up their own schools in shops and...
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What to do with a degree in human geography
Your analytical skills are highly marketable, but further study is required for many related careersOnce lampooned as the last academic domain of the workshy and the unimaginative, geography has...
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Letters: Art from the sublime to the ridiculed
A lot is being made of the 400-years-since-he-died stuff on Caravaggio's bones (Report, 17 June). Artist on the run from a murder etc. As though Rome wasn't a violent city in 1600. I suppose you could...
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Letters: Deaths during the Mau Mau emergency
Richard Drayton dismisses me as a "television businessman" (Letters, 16 June). So much for my double first in history at Cambridge at age 19, my 25 years as a broadcast journalist, the score or more of...
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Cambridge University don learns lesson in giving credit after plagiarism row
Nicola Morrison apologises after writing article that quoted verbatim some of student's dissertationA senior lecturer at Cambridge has apologised to an undergraduate for writing an article quoting...
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Creationist claims in Northern Ireland | Sophia Deboick
Supporters of creationism in Northern Ireland are abusing the language of rights and equality in order to gain a footholdLast month Nelson McCausland, DUP assembly member and Northern Ireland culture...
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Smart suit, shiny shoes … meet the new NUS president leading the battle...
As the union turns to persuasion not placards, Aaron Porter is finding unlikely support – from senior ToriesAaron Porter, 25, has just moved back in with his parents in Norbury, south London, after...
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Dole queue beckons for Britain's young | David Blanchflower
Job schemes for the young have taken the first big hit in George Osborne's deficit reduction cuts. It's dogma over common senseThe latest data release on the labour market from the Office of National...
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Dan Hewett-Silk obituary
Whether as a writer, teacher, civil servant or local councillor, my friend Dan Hewett-Silk, who has died of lung cancer aged 59, was a man of principle who cared deeply about his fellow human beings,...
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Internet plagiarism rising in schools
Half of university students also prepared to submit essays bought off internet, according to researchThe number of schools using plagiarism-detecting computer software to catch A-level students...
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Letters of sculptor George Kennethson donated to Cambridge
German arts broadcaster Hans-Jörg Modlmayr and his wife Hildegard have given the university 80 letters written by the 'neglected genius' KennethsonCambridge University will today accept gifts which...
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Student fees hike 'may cut applications by half'
Charity research finds high impact of university costs, as college staff fear 'lost generation of learners'A big rise in tuition fees would lead to a dramatic reduction in the number of teenagers...
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Martin Rowson on the coalition's 'free schools' policy
A leaked memo shows how coalition government ministers discussed raiding free meals budgetMartin Rowson
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Are breakfast clubs under threat?
Breakfast clubs are a lifeline for children who come to school hungry. But will the new government continue to support them?George wants four pieces of toast, cut into four please. Bea is having...
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From the archive, 21 June 1984: Sheep and goats and a headache
Originally published in the Guardian on 21 June 1984Some 10 years after the Schools Council first suggested that examinations at 16-plus should be reformed, Sir Keith Joseph yesterday finally chalked...
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