Justice Secretary Jack Straw says Labour is best placed to see Britain through the current economic downturn.

The latest figures on delayed Sats tests for 14-year-olds shows that at least 29% of pupils still do not have all their marks.

Almost one in five primary schools is still waiting for test results - and heads warn of more disputes over the quality of marking.

Management speak - don't you just hate it? Emphatically yes, judging by readers' responses to writer Lucy Kellaway's campaign against office jargon. Here, we list 50 of the best worst examples.

New England manager Fabio Capello has vowed to learn English in a month, but can he and does he need to?

How one school is working to ensure no child is left behind.

Sri Lanka end New Zealand's unbeaten World Cup run and move to within sight of the last four with a six-wicket win in Grenada.

Kim Clijsters beats Martina Hingis for a place in the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

A third of primary school leavers are unable to use full stops and capital letters properly, examiners say.

BBC education correspondent Mike Baker asks whether it is fair to claim that GCSEs are too easy.

A primary school in Norfolk drops the traditional spelling test in favour of a computer keyboard recognition game.

Film critics deliver their verdicts on the hugely-hyped movie of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.

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Pete Clifton, editor of the BBC News website, decides it's time to take action to tackle a long-running complaint, and is haunted by a picture from the past.

Polling in Zimbabwe was seriously flawed and electoral abuse was rife, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw tells MPs.

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The BBC's Mike Baker finds Russia's schools have problems the "mirror-image" of those in England.

Alphabetical list - Style Guide

As part of E-cyclopedia's ongoing mission to reflect the diversity of the English language, here are 141 euphemisms for just being drunk.

Here are the opening sentences of two novels, both written 66 years ago. Here's the first.