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Letters: More than a few regrets over Lib Dem fee pledge
Your readers (Letters, 13 November), and you who recommended us to vote Lib Dem, would benefit from reading the specific words about tuition fees in the manifesto: "We will scrap unfair university...
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If we want entrepreneurs, we have to train them
We are putting our hopes for economic revival in young entrepreneurs, so we must step up their trainingEntrepreneurs are in the limelight as never before. With the UK economy starting to show signs of...
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Cribsheet daily 16.11.10
Will Gove get to hold the purse strings of every state school?Michael Gove could be heading for trouble in the Commons today, when he's likely to be asked to explain his latest education revolution....
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Len Shelley obituary
Artist known for boxed tableaux that mixed real life and fantasyThe artist Len Shelley, who has died of cancer aged 46, was as much a maker of fables as he was a maker of boxed tableaux. His art...
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Community payback officer Steve Dyson on Misfits
Community payback officer Steve Dyson says Misfits, a TV show about five young offenders, has got lots of details wrongWatching this programme was torture. It's about five young offenders sentenced to...
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British newspapers 'too dependent on advertising'
Book edited by Oxford University academics also claims there is no automatic correlation between internet use and newspaper profitabilityBritish newspapers are too dependent on advertising according to...
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Michael Gove to swap modules for single-exam GCSEs
Education secretary reveals plans as part of wide-ranging white paper covering teacher training, discipline and accountabilityThe GCSE structure of frequent, piecemeal modular exams is to be abolished...
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Letters: We will fight with students over fees
We support the day of protest against tuition fees on Wednesday, following the magnificent demonstration by university and school students and by university staff on 10 November. We are utterly opposed...
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Academics pledge to 'fight alongside' students over tuition fees and cuts
In a letter to the Guardian, almost 300 university staff express their support for planned protests taking place this weekNearly 300 academics from 76 universities have written to the Guardian to say...
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Letters: Turning fragments from the past into a coherent history
The layout of my article on history teaching in our schools (G2, 9 November) – including the highlighting of six exemplary topics I believed, under the constraints of the national curriculum, pupils...
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BBC's Panorama claims Islamic schools teach antisemitism and homophobia
Thousands of British schoolchildren are being taught Saudi national curriculum, according to programmeChildren in Islamic schools are being taught antisemitic and homophobic views from textbooks, the...
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Library cuts and job losses condemned by leading authors
Councils are expected to look to volunteers in attempt to balance budgets hit by the government's spending reviewWriters Philip Pullman, Kate Mosse and Will Self have criticised government cuts that...
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Can hyperlocal news start-ups work? The Lichfield Blog shows the way ahead
Journalism students wondering about the viability of entrepreneurial journalism, hyperlocal journalism and the value of news blogs would do well to study The Lichfield Blog.In less than two years, the...
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Let's declare war on tired martial metaphors | Mind your language
Bombarding readers with the language of the battleground is hyperbolic, fatuous and insensitiveA week or so before Remembrance Sunday, I was struck by a jarring headline in the Guardian: "Decision time...
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The Sutton Trust calls for GCSEs at 14
Education charity claims students should sit their GCSEs earlier so they can better plan their academic route to employmentPupils should take GCSEs at 14 and then choose between a range of academic,...
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Michael Gove announces reading tests for six-year-olds
Education secretary to introduce a 'light-touch, phonics-based check' to test the reading ability of all year 1 pupilsSix-year-olds will be tested on whether they can read words like "street" and...
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Cribsheet daily 22.11.10
Your roundup of educational news, views, blogs, tweets and campaigns from the Guardian and around the web.Sign up here to get your bumper Cribsheet of the week – out every Tuesday – as an emailMichael...
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Elevator Pitch: WGYU - it's like social networking, but useful
WGYU is a social network with a mission: matching up young people with mentors who can help develop and guide their careers. Based in London, and set up by Alun Baker in October 2008 with his own...
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The Ministry of Stories opens for children who want to write
One of the first volunteers to work with children at Nick Hornby's new writing centre was Frances BoothFreshly sharpened pencils sit neatly on a table that still smells of wood. Five never-sat-on...
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Primary school pupils learn lessons in empathy
Children are being taught 'emotional literacy' through studying infant behaviour as part of a pilot scheme launched for eight and nine-year-olds in ScotlandIt is late morning at New Stevenston primary...
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