Never mind learning by doing, how about learning by dreaming? According to a study carried out at Harvard Medical School, dreaming is the brain's way of learning and making sense of the world.  People who nap and dream about a task they have just learned perform it better when they wake up than those who […]

A teacher from Oxfordshire stranded in Spain because of air restrictions is using an internet cafe to take lessons. Chris Orr, who teaches at Sibford School, in Sibford Ferris near Banbury, was due to fly back from holiday in Alicante last Friday. He is using a webcam to make sure that his business studies A-Level […]

An Australian publisher has had to pulp a cookbook after one recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" to be added to the dish. The recipe called for salt and freshly ground black pepper but a misprint occurred on just one page, probably as a result of a computer's spell-checker programme. Never - […]

Ma Xiuxian, aged 102, has become the world's oldest first-year pupil. She started work in a cotton mill at the age of 13 and never got the chance to go to school as a child.   This inspirational lady says taking her place at her desk in the Grade One class at Weshan Road Elementary School […]

A nice play on the words "dressed to kill" which simply means to be dressed to impress, but replacing the word "kill" with "kilt", the Scottish national dress.

According to a review by the Department of Culture, free internet access and e-books could help reverse a decline in the number of people using libraries in England. Sunday opening and coffee shops might also boost library use, and membership of one library should also provide access to other libraries. Do these people go into […]