It sounds like another typical anecdote from Britain's lazy schooling culture, the kind of thing that would feature in a re-issue of Melanie Phillips' All Must Have Prizes: a southwest London school has curbed the amount of homework it doles out to students, because the poor, hard-of-thinking kiddiewinks might be "put off learning". Oh, the shame! Kingston-based Tiffin boy's school, where this Londonista actually spent an unhappy five years, says that pupils should have......

Police stormed Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in Marylebone yesterday evening following a stand off with a knife wielding student threatening to kill himself unless he was allowed to retake the intermediate course exam he had failed. The distressed chef, who'd apparently spent all of his savings on the internationally renowned course, ultimately had to be tasered by riot police after 4 hours of attempted negotiations. Others picked up on this tragic, pathetic and......

You can't blame the Queen for not visiting East London very often. You can't get the tube there from Buck House for starters, and since the Number 38 went 'bendy' the Corgis won't get on it. But this week she went to the remarkable length of flying to Istanbul to meet a group of teenagers from Hackney. To be fair, she was on a visit to Turkey anyway. But she spent the day meeting......

Shakespeare is in the news today due to the fight of three male Shakespearean leads for the Best Male Actor prize at the Olivier awards last night. But another bard-based story has caught our eye in the swirl of iambic pentameters and though it's been rumbling along for a week already, it's clear old William still knows how to shake things up... Nine girls at Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School in Stamford, north London,......