Dear Jeremy – your work problems solved
Our careers expert – and you the readers – help an employee criticised by their boss for not putting in overtime, and someone whose son wants to break into the film industry
Most boys think online pornography is realistic, finds study
Research reveals that 94% of children who have seen online pornography were exposed to it by age 14 and many saw images by accident in pop-up ads
Could Steiner schools have a point on children, tablets and tech?
Studies have yet to show much benefit from technology in schools, leading some to wonder whether the offline life is better for children
It’s lazy to blame video games for young men’s educational failures
While the gender gap in higher education is growing, it’s facile to say playing Minecraft and its ilk are the cause
Regional dialects are dying out – it’s enough to get you blarting
Britons are increasingly speaking like southern Englanders, according to an app produced by Cambridge University. Here’s a guide to some bostin’ words and phrases at risk of extinction
Angelina Jolie gets new role as visiting professor at LSE
Actor to join ex-foreign secretary William Hague as ‘professor in practice’ as part of new MSc in women, peace and security
Iraq shuts down the internet to stop pupils cheating in exams
The Iraqi government cuts off fixed-line and mobile broadband services to discourage children from smuggling mobile phones into state tests
The best commencement speeches: from Jill Abramson to Neil Gaiman
As Barack Obama visits Rutgers University to offer words of wisdom to its graduating class, we look back at highlights from the past few decades
Back off, parents. Let teachers get on with their job
What makes some parents think the education system must be organised according to their needs?
Are computers killing off craft? Not a chance
Today’s art students are ready to embrace both traditional and digital approaches: universities must inspire them to breathe new life into old forms
Balancing act: we need engineers in research, not just in industry
The problem of the UK’s engineering shortage is well known, but the answer could lie in guiding more brilliant minds towards academia
Why working-class actors are a disappearing breed
Once we had gritty TV dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff: now we have glossy thrillers with upper-class stars. How did British screens become dominated by the privileged few? And does it matter?
Jo Ann Kaplan obituary
Other Lives: Film-maker who explored the female form, the artistic process and her own mortality
Story of cities #21: Olivetti tries to build the ideal ‘human city’ for its workers
Adriano Olivetti turned a small, Italian typewriter company into a global phenomenon – but his true obsession was transforming its headquarters, Ivrea, into a model industrial metropolis. The city has still not recovered
Technicians: industry’s unsung heroes
With Britain facing a skills shortage, a new exhibition is highlighting the work of British industry’s backroom boys and girls