This network event will focus on the topic of decolonising the library in schools, FE and HE. Speakers include Ella Taylor (Harris Westminster Sixth Form), Jo Lapham (Truro and Penwith College), Grant Young (UEA), Siddharth Soni (Jesus College, Cambridge), Farzana Qureshi (SOAS, London) and Devika Mehra (Newcastle), convened by University English. Read short blogs by…
Joint Statement from the English Association, the Institute for English Studies, and University English on threatened job losses at Oxford Brookes University Dear Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Board of Governors, and colleagues, We write on behalf of the English Association, the Institute for English Studies, and University English, the three major subject bodies in the UK representing…
Download this free resource, created by a participant in the UEA x Inspiration Trust EA Hub. The ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’ CPD focused on the character of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre and offered an insight into how we can view Bertha beyond the boundaries of Bronte’s creation. In Bronte’s novel, Bertha is restricted to the…
The EA’s campaigning activity is focused on the GCSE to A Level pipeline. We are delighted to work closely with our colleagues in University English as they launch their #EnglishCreates campaign, which focuses on attracting Y12 and Y13 students to study English at University.
The relevance of studying earlier periods of English literature can be a hard sell to students, both in terms of content and the skills they will develop in the process. And yet, as the ‘Digital Thomas Nashe’ exhibition demonstrates, not only can we draw clear parallels between the turbulence experienced by young Elizabethans as by…
We were very pleased to contribute to this article, published in The Times on 1 December 2023. Three of our members contributed to the article, in which Sian Griffiths explores the impact of using phonics to teach reading on young people’s desire to read for pleasure, and the ways in which the narrow focus of…
48% of the reach and impact produced in English between 2014 and 2020 was judged 4*, by far the best result in the Arts and Humanities, and an outcome that belongs to all departments, large and small, across the 4 nations of the UK. With this new series of Speaking for English 2023 the English…
Open discussion, reflections, and Q&A. With Matt Carnaby (Director of Curriculum & Assessment (Secondary) at Astrea Academy Trust) and Joan Foley (lecturer in arts and humanities for the Open University)