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London MPs attack BBC for inviting party leader onto Question Time

22.10.09

London MPs today led a furious backlash against the BBC for inviting the BNP onto Question Time... more

10,000 back petition to demand end of Sats

18.09.09

Ten thousand people have signed a petition calling for the end of Sats as industrial action over the tests moved a step closer... more

Champion of picture books named Children's Laureate

09.06.09

Author and illustrator Anthony Browne was announced as the Children's Laureate, and described how picture books helped families to bond... more

JK isn't a touch on Stevenson's classic

29.04.09

Forget Hogwarts, old children's tales are the best read. So say Children's Laureates Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen... more

Literacy lessons have been fatal for English, says teachers' leader

09.04.09

The drive to improve literacy in schools has killed the subject of English and left a generation of children unable to speak properly, a teachers' leader warns... more

Get street wise � Big Brother is googling you

25.03.09

If Google's aim is to be master of all it surveys, then the launch of Google Street View in the UK brings it that much closer to surveying, well, everything... more

Thousands to march through London over Middle East conflict

09.01.09

Thousands of protesters will take to the streets this weekend in demonstrations over Israel's assault on Gaza... more

A 60th birthday ode to the NHS

04.12.08

Children's Laureate Michael Rosen has unveiled his latest work -a special poem to celebrate the NHS... more

Education

08.10.08

The struggle to turn around some failing institutions has seen community leaders and politicians willing to embrace radical new teaching and funding methods. ... more

Children 'being denied vital access to a cultural life'

21.07.08

Children are being denied their right to enjoy music, art and drama, campaigners say... more

'Macho' ministers deny pupils the chance to read for fun, says Laureate

09.07.08

A leading writer has attacked the Government's "macho" education policies for deterring children from reading books... more

Jordan's pony care book shortlisted for W.H. Smith Children�s Book of the Year

22.03.08

Enid Blyton she's not. But former model Katie Price has broken through the ranks of top children's authors anyway, receiving the equivalent of an Oscar nomination for her Perfect Ponies: My Pony Care Book... more

Show an interest in children - or lose them

05.03.08

Few might consider me a good role model for children. But children, it seems, have other ideas. The Year 6 pupils of an east London primary last week sent me a card, pictures they'd drawn and letters thanking me for giving them a talk on my job... more

Making kids laugh

17.01.08

Poet Michael Rosen is just one of the familiar faces appearing in a week of events for the Imagine Children's Literature Festival.... more

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