‘I lie in the bath, imagining that I am wandering the Rialto in Venice’: my obsession with Duolingo

First it was Italian, then I added French, Portuguese and even Latin. But does the language learning app, which has almost 15 million people using it, really work?

Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism

Almost 1,000 references to misogyny and violent action are recorded each day on dedicated incel forums

Richard Harris archive donated to Cork University

Late Irish actor’s poems, photos, plaques and even his wedding list among items handed over by family

Confetti review – mother goes to ends of the earth to champion dyslexic daughter

Heartfelt, gently moving drama inspired by director Ann Hu’s own experiences, will resonate with any parent who has had to advocate for their child

Four out of five pupils in England say progress suffered due to Covid

State school pupils twice as likely to feel they have fallen behind than peers in private schools, landmark study finds

Duolingo says its English language tests for visas are cheap and secure

The founder of the language app is in talks with the UK government about offering its online test to visa applicants, at less than £50 a time

‘Poisonous’: how WhatsApp is exposing UK school children to bullying and harmful content

Teachers say they are powerless to deal with damaging elements of social media and are calling for more parental vigilance

Sue Fortescue obituary

Other lives: Linguist and IT specialist involved in ensuring the resilience of international banking systems at the millennium

British Film Institute launches 10-year Screen Culture and lottery funding strategies

A new streaming service, BFI+, plus investment in film education in schools and access to its archives are all part of the BFI’s new plan

Student tech: the best gadgets to help you make the most of university

With students’ finances overstretched, it’s important to get the right tech at the right price. Here are some of the best deals

The Whale review – Darren Aronofsky’s latest is a contrived disappointment

It’s hard to feel much sympathy for Brendan Fraser’s morbidly obese English teacher in this much anticipated but underwhelming return to movies

‘A damaged person’: Alan Cumming on playing the schoolboy who was actually 30

In 1993, a 16-year-old pupil at a Glasgow school was unmasked as a fully grown adult. Now his classmates have made a documentary – My Old School – about the astonishing deception

My Old School review – audacious tale of thirtysomething man who posed as a teenage pupil

Jono McLeod directs this intriguing documentary about his former classmate Brian MacKinnon, who at age 30, went back to school as a ‘teenager’

‘It should have been celebrated’: the fight to save a thriving Black school

In Let the Little Light Shine, a high-achieving Black school in Chicago’s South Side fights the tide of gentrification

Teachers in England ‘fear they are missing signs of far-right radicalisation’

Headteachers say pandemic has worsened extremism among pupils as staff call for more training