Awkward romance for beginners: what will a school run by the makers of Love Actually teach?

Working Title, the film company behind Four Weddings and Bridget Jones, plans to open a school in north London. Just imagine what could be on the Curtis-icculum

Teaching on a film set: ‘I’ve found myself in all sorts of bizarre locations’

Judith Phillips has taught child actors for a decade. She reveals the joys and challenges of squeezing in lessons between costume fittings and scene takes

The Asian century is gaining momentum: universities must prepare

China is a growing power in research and innovation. Universities wanting to stay at the vanguard of scientific discovery should cast their eyes east

Lecturers recommend: non-western cinema that every student should see

University tutors select the foreign films to watch for a new perspective on the world

School Life review – portrait of the teacher as a superhero

Two idiosyncratic teachers contemplate retirement in a charming documentary set in an Irish primary boarding school

Chinese factory supplying major laptop brands accused of student labour abuses

Watchdog claims Chinese factory supplying Sony, HP, Acer and others makes funding and graduation of student interns contingent on working 12-hour shifts

Christine Whittaker obituary

BBC film researcher who breathed new life into the making of historical documentaries for television

Assassin’s Creed Origins: how Ubisoft painstakingly recreated ancient Egypt

Ubisoft has enlisted leading Egyptologists, historians and hieroglyphics-deciphering AI to create an authentic experience of the age of Cleopatra

Lord Bhattacharyya: Professor Fix-it of British industry

Labour peer and founder of manufacturing research hub WMG has served prime ministers of all shades since the 1980s

Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages

Today’s hi-tech wages threaten Silicon Valley’s bottom line. What better way to drive down coders’ pay than by investing in a new generation of cheap labor?

Laptops are great, but not if it means the end of handwriting

Students are now so dependent on their laptops for writing that they may soon be allowed to use them in university exams. But writing by hand is still an important skill

Two-year-olds should learn to code, says computing pioneer

Early start would encourage women to become programmers and reduce gender stereotyping, argues Stephanie Shirley

Should Hollywood do more to portray safer sex?

Last week, Insecure’s Issa Rae responded to fans who claim the show should do more to depict safe sexual practices but the show isn’t alone in its portrayal of condom-free action

Mary Beard abused on Twitter over Roman Britain’s ethnic diversity

Classicist says her assertion that there was at least some diversity under Roman rule led to ‘torrent of aggressive insults’

No more heavy loads: experts develop greener, lighter washing machine

Nottingham Trent University team says replacing concrete with plastic container to fill with water could slash carbon emissions