UK News 21-04-2005 who: National Association of Teachers of English what: Recommends scrapping English literature A-level when: Monday snippet: "The report says the `rigid division` of English into `language` and `literature` studies is `no longer appropriate`," reports The Independent, pointing out that more than three times as many students opt to study "a small number of lengthy texts read in isolation from each other" rather than taking the language exam. In other education news, The Guardian says a "mostly left-leaning" group of professors and lecturers calling themselves The New Vision Group has urged the next prime minister to "set schools free, I mean really free, from the suffocating central control set up by your predecessors". [... more]

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