IT support call centres and high-street computer and telephone retailers today called on the government to radically improve the smirking, sneering, eye-rolling and ironic intonation abilities of Britain’s young people. [read...]
The government has promised to save £750m a year on education by scrapping courses in modern languages and letting kids learn them in their spare time from porn sites instead. A free market think tank has said there are websites offering porn in “a much wider range” [read...]
The report singled out ‘variable’ standards of teaching and ‘low-level’ task setting – marked improvements on the previous ratings of ‘woeful’ and ‘non-existent’. [read...]
Parents of a child who is a school with other children who are clearly not called Callum have withdrawn their child from education. Speaking to the press this morning, Mr and Mrs Price of Hampshire say Callum came home asking why other children had a names other than Callum. [read...]
Local councils are being asked to do more following a damning new survey that claims children as young as four are regularly using adverbs in general conversation. And far from having no understanding of their meaning or grammatical usage, [read...]
