English is recast in Indian films

The lure of new markets and a healthy appetite at home for controversial storylines are prompting Bollywood to turn from song and dance to dialogue with global appeal, reports Randeep Ramesh

Computer games are an asset to maths

Learning and Teaching Scotland, or LTS for short, have consistently pushed the serious games agenda forward by producing quantitative positive results supporting the benefit of computer games in education. Their latest findings indicate a link between Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training and maths scores.

‘Like history in the first person’

A new film tells how a teacher in the 1960s carried out a terrifying experiment in fascism with his class. Anthea Lipsett tracks him down - and some of his students

Fame Academy

What were today's celebrities like as children? We track down their former teachers to find out.

The digital war on poverty

Jeffrey Sachs: Thanks to market forces, even the world's poorest people are beginning to benefit from the flow of digital information

These greens aren’t good for you

Our children are being urged to save the planet by TV and film characters but, asks Stuart Jeffries, won't this turn them into consumerist couch potatoes instead?

School bully game ad cleared by ASA

A TV ad for a computer game where players control a school bully has escaped a ban from the advertising regulator despite 31 complaints. By Mark Sweney