Britain's minister for schools has a string of basic errors on his website. Jim Knight, who went to Cambridge University, has admitted he could do better when it comes to spelling, after a newspaper found several examples of poor spelling on his website, they include "maintainence" for "maintenance," "acheiving" for "achieving" and "archeaological" for "archaeological," […]

According to an online test taken online by students training for primary and secondary schools, thousands of trainee teachers are struggling to pass literacy tests that require them to spell words such as anxiety, relieved and mathematical. More than 11,000 trainee teachers, just over a quarter of the annual intake, failed to pass the literacy […]

According to an article in the Times Higher Education Supplement, common spelling mistakes should be accepted into everyday use, not corrected. Ken Smith a lecturer at Bucks New University says the most common mistakes should be accepted as "variant spellings". He lists the 10 most commonly misspelt words, which include "arguement" for "argument" and "twelth" […]