US designer Yves Béhar’s DIY spectacles for Mexico schools

Yves Béhar aims to repeat the success of the £65 laptop he designed for school children in developing countries with a design for budget spectacles

Video game and cartoons used to shock school children about violence

Pupils aged 9-11 encouraged to discuss violence in real life and on-screen in pioneering project

Slumdog reveals learning treasures

The education project that inspired an oscar winning film is now being tried in schools in the north-east

Avatar’s digital effects acknowledge Bournemouth’s supremecy

Animation graduates from a sleepy British seaside town will be watching closely to see whether Avatar can fulfil expectations at this year's Oscars. Lucy Tobin reports

The player: In praise of educational games

Innovative educational games can be a powerful tool for helping children learn

Phil Jones survives MPs’ grilling over climate emails

Fred Pearce: Commons committee tiptoed round embattled scientist and sidestepped crucial questions

Climate scientist admits sending ‘awful emails’ but denies perverting peer review

In his first public appearance since the beginning of the emails row Phil Jones tells MPs he will be cleared of accusations

Climate science emails: witnesses and terms of reference

Who are the scientists and sceptics and what will they be asked by MPs on the science and technology committee today?

Parliamentary climate emails inquiry – as it happened

Live coverage of the science and technology committee inquiry into disclosure of climate data by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

Climate scientist at centre of email row to face questions from MPs

Scientists Phil Jones and John Beddington and sceptics Nigel Lawson and Benny Peiser among those giving evidence

Government-backed report on future jobs in science had major flaws

James Hayton: The Shape of Jobs to Come with its headline-grabbing list of exotic new roles in science was based on flimsy research

David Cameron promises to tackle advertisers who sexualise children

Pledge from Tory leader as cabinet minsters announce plans to tighten online rules

BBC’s education service Janala has delivered 1m lessons in three months

Mercedes Bunz: BBC says project aimed at delivering English lessons through mobile phones in Bangladesh has got off to a good start

Hacked climate emails inquiry will not ‘audit scientific conclusions’

Panel will examine behaviour over preparation of 'hockey stick' graph and alleged abuse of peer review, says inquiry head

Head of UEA inquiry to outline scope of review into hacked climate emails

Sir Muir Russell will set out the remit of the inquiry into the fallout from the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia