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Harmful techonologies banned in schools PDF Stampa E-mail

According to  a Council of Europe Committee, mobile phones and wireless networks should be banned in schools because really harmful for children's wealth. Nevertheless some researchers state that there are no evidence of association between mobile phones and wealth effects on people. It will be really difficult to ban these technologies from schools today: many teachers and students  carry mobile phones and  nearly all schools today have Wi-Fi networks to be used as teaching tools.

Science news reported by  The Telegraph online 14th May 2011.
 
Edward de Vere: Shakespeare or not Shakespeare? PDF Stampa E-mail

Who wrote Shakespeare's plays?

Some researchers think that Edward De Vere really wrote what we all know as Shakespeare's plays. But some of them think also that "Shakespeare" was only a pseudonym De Vere chose to remain anonymous for many reasons.

See what Matthew Cossolotto, Shakespeare Oxford Society President (2005-2009), says on About.com: Shakespeare
 
What future for books in the 21st century? PDF Stampa E-mail

ImageCan books survive in today’s digital society? Printed books have been the only means to get pleasure or education for human beings. But today technological devices can be viewed as a threat. A lunch lecture will be held at the Darwin Lecturer Theatre in London (Gower St.) by Ian Stevenson, UCL Centre for Publishing on March 11th 2010 from 13:15 to 13:55. Professor Stevenson’s lecture can be downloaded from UCL’s iTunesU from 7 days after the event.

For more information see http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:a4e-g32y7r7u-o276yr/ 
 
Was Shakespeare a "secret" Catholic? PDF Stampa E-mail

New evidence (three mysterious signatures on a parchment kept in the Venerable English College in Rome) prove that the Bard was a "secret Catholic".

For more information:

The Times Online

The Telegraph

Catholic Education Resource Centre
 
Who's the greatest writer in the UK? PDF Stampa E-mail

See a list of the Greatest British authors since 1945  (with a link for each of them) prepared by Erica Wagner for The Times.
 
Ted Hughes in Poets' Corner? PDF Stampa E-mail

The Dean of Westminster Abbey, the Very Rev Dr John Hall, is considering the proposal to put Ted Hughes (1930-1998), who was poet laureate from 1984 to 1998, in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Writers, academics and friends organised a campaign to immortalise him among the gretest British writers.

See more on The Times Online.
 
Oxbridge: still the top universities in UK PDF Stampa E-mail

The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are still the top universities in the UK, even if Cambridge has lost he leadership of five subjects but has taken top position in other three subjects.

See more on:  Times Online  -  Times Good University Guide 2010 (University Ranking Table) -  Profiles: Oxford / Cambridge
 
Who will be the next Poet Laureate? PDF Stampa E-mail

 

 

Next May Andrew Motion’s office as a Poet Laureate will end and the process for his replacement has already begun.

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Shakespeare Authorship Debate PDF Stampa E-mail

 

A never-ending story…A new research has been published in Germany by Kurt Kreiler on Shakespeare Authorship, Der Mann der Shakespeare erfand  (The man who invented Shakespeare). He claims to have found out  new evidence on the authorship. According to the research Shakespeare's works were written by the 17th Earl of Oxford, Sir Edward de Vere.
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