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We know the effing answer, but what exactly was the effing question? Isn’t that what we are bound to ask in the wake of the great English GCSE F-word controversy?In case you missed it, this was sparked by an article in The Times in which Peter Buckroyd, chief English examiner for awarding body AQA, admitted to having awarded marks to a candidate who simply wrote “fuck off” in answer to an exam question

Am I the only person in Britain to have watched the video of the launch of VQ Day? I can’t see it making it on to YouTube, unless of course they decide to introduce a section specifically for dull-as-ditchwater clips with a further education setting

What am I worth? It’s a brave, or foolhardy, question to ask students – a bit like dropping a well-fed bather into a pool of piranhas

You should join a gym, said my physiotherapist

It was one of Monty Python’s most memorable sketches

Why must teachers be so ordinary?