‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

Theresa May will today announce that every school in England will be able to convert to a grammar or selective school. The move will mark one of the biggest changes to the education system in decades, ...

Grammars have often been referred to as engines of social mobility As the prime minister sets out plans for a new wave of grammars and selective schools, we ask how they might look. Why is Theresa May ...

The news that grammar schools are to be handed £50 million to help create more school places has been met with a mixed reaction. Here, we look at the background to grammar schools, and why they have ...

What is it with Theresa May and grammar schools? Labour's Angela Rayner claims the Prime Minister has an obsession with them - and it's hard to disagree with that. In her teens, vicar's daughter ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

News that grammar schools are to be handed £50 million to help create more school places has been met with a mixed reaction. Here, we look at the background to grammars and why they have proved ...

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