The National Centre for Language and Literacy has recently relaunched from its new home at the London Road campus of the University of Reading.

Michael Gove spoke at the BETT Show on 11 January 2012 about freeing up teachers to innovate in the fast-moving subject of ICT. During the question time at the end of his speech he was asked by a NATE representative whether his vision included subject associations.

The Department of Education revealed today that thousands of primary schools have already signed up to spend more than £7.7 million on new phonics products and training. But questions still remain about the usefulness of this test for bilingual pupils. The research paper on the process of the pilot phonics checks published in September 2011 found that less than half of respondents agreed that the Check accurately assessed the decoding ability of pupils with EAL (46%).