News via The University of West of England: Five Black British teachers (backgrounds in English and PSHE/Citizenship), with support from Black community leaders and young people, are currently creating a...

The UKLA International Conference – focused on the teaching of writing – is being held at Exeter on 23rd-25th June. Keynotes are available here and the full programme will be...

In spring 2022, Ofsted led research visits to 6 secondary schools in which a higher-than-expected proportion of poor readers got a grade 4 or above in English language at GCSE....

Perspectives on A Level English – a NATE survey For all post-16 English teachers It is now 7 years since new A Level English specifications were introduced and NATE is keen to...

Research conducted by a team in the South West (including the University of Exeter) has examined what literature is taught to students in Key Stage 3. You can see some...

Research by Dr Alison Pearson at the University of Exeter has investigated the factors that support teachers to stay in the profession long term. Below are key headlines, but if...

Secondary English teachers, do you have Primary / Early Years Literacy contacts? Dr Clare Dowdall, Dr Judith Kleine Staarman, Assan Ali, School of Education, University of Exeter Invitation to participate...

ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2022Talking to write: using metalinguistic talk to develop children’s writing2nd November 2022, 2.30-5.30pmCustom House, Exeter Quay What’s on offer? This workshop will provide insights into...

Can you help us with a 5-minute survey about the ‘Faster Read’? Have you ever used the ‘Faster Read’ (also called the ‘Immersive Faster/Fast Read’, the ‘Rapid Read’ and the...

The English and Media Centre have published a critical response to the Ofsted Curriculum Research Review which raises several issues relating to: The limited available subject-specific research evidence which underpins...

https://www.penguin.co.uk/campaigns/lit-in-colour.html This recent study by Penguin and The Runnymede Trust draws together a range of research into the literature studied at GCSE. Some highlighted findings: Fewer than 1% of candidates...

We are delighted to announce the publication of A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School, edited by the Exeter English PGCE team, including contributions from other Exeter...

Our partner school Cornerstone is running a free virtual English conference. While this is primarily aimed at Primary specialists, it may be of interest to Secondary English specialists with responsibility...

£50 book voucher for participating.. Please see message below from our Business School… Focus Groups information for participants I’d like to invite you to participate in a focus group discussing...

The first full report of our survey into texts taught at KS3 has now been published on the UKLA website here: https://ukla.org/funded_projects/what-literature-texts-are-being-taught-in-years-7-to-9/ We are currently looking at issues relating to...

NATE_TE_Issue 23_88pp Journal Summer 2020_P30-33_SMITH_V3 (1) (002) The article above reports on a UKLA survey exploring which texts are taught at KS3. It considers this particularly the light of renewed...

We are delighted to announce that 100 letters to the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy – phase one of the Hardy’s Correspondents Project, a collaborative project between Dorset Museum and...

Ruth is recruiting schools / English teachers for a major research project investigating talk for writing. What’s the project about? The research project, which is funded by the Economic and...

In February, in Manchester, the British Educational Research Association is running a curriculum design event for teachers: https://www.bera.ac.uk/event/exploring-ways-forward-in-english The event is designed to support teachers in breaking free from narrow,...

A key focus of research in English teaching at the moment is on the dominance of paragraph scaffolds such as PEE or PEEL. In a recent article, Simon Gibbons (Director...

The ‘English Shared Futures‘ event in Manchester on Friday 26th June – Sunday 28th June is the major national English conference this year. It’s a joint enterprise between The English...