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Who's to blame for the new English literature GCSEs?

May 30, 2014 | Category: English
The sound and fury surrounding text choices for GCSE English literature just won’t go away. The exam boards got their digs in first with Paul Dodd of OCR claiming Gove wanted to ban US authors because...
#GCSE #English literature #AQA #Michael Gove #Jonathan Bate #OCR

Slow Writing: how slowing down can improve your writing

May 12, 2012 | Category: English
NB - my latest thinking on Slow Writing can be found here.Exam season is nearly upon us and English departments across the land will be gearing up to the Herculean labour of training students to churn...
#AQA #Slow Writing #writing

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