The author of Brooklyn said he would ‘use all my energy’ in the role, to help champion benefits of higher education Novelist Colm Tóibín has been appointed chancellor of the University of Liverpool. The author, who won the 2009 Costa novel of the year with Brooklyn, accepted the role because of the part universities play […]
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Michael Rosen explains the difference between a phonics test and a reading test (Letter from a curious parent, Education, 31 January). In a phonics test, children pronounce words presented to them in a list. In a reading test, children have to understand what they read. Of great interest is the consistent finding that heavy phonics
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Bravo Two Zero author, who didn’t learn to read until he was 16, says his experience working in schools shows that a box-ticking approach to tuition inhibits reading skills of the less privileged Government literacy policy that emphasises grammar over enjoyment is discriminating against poor children and has contributed to England’s position at the bottom
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My father, Angus Ross, who has died aged 88, was a distinguished scholar of 18th-century English literature and a founding member, along with David Daiches, of the English department at Sussex University in the early 1960s. He also played a key role in the establishment of the university’s graduate school of arts and social studies
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