THE lecture system at Harvard gives Professors a chance to develop their ideas on some chosen topic at length and regularly over a period of time. It is far superior to the British, system, say, in ...

Stephen Fry will be visiting Reading this summer to honour poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde. The QI host, who is known as one of Wilde’s most devoted contemporary fans, will give the University of ...

Speaking at the Royal Institution, the author and screenwriter linked falling shared reading rates to poverty, housing insecurity and social media Frank Cottrell-Boyce has urged policymakers to treat ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Earlier this fall ...

The past two decades have seen a burgeoning commentary on the subject of “close reading,” now widely regarded as the core practice of literary study. In the previous decades—from the later 1960s to ...

The pleasure children get from reading is being put at risk by the teaching methods being used to encourage literacy, the writer Frank Cottrell Boyce will warn on Friday. The writer, who won the 2004 ...