Follett, a distributor of educational materials, has announced that it has developed an eBook reader for education that is aimed at classrooms and libraries.
Jonathan Savage, reader in education at Manchester Metropolitan University Teach First is funded incredibly generously by a central government grant.
Patricia Driscoll, reader in education at Canterbury Christ Church University, says universities and colleges are working hard to plug the gap in expertise.
Jonathan Savage, one of the report's authors and a reader in education at Manchester Metropolitan University, acknowledges that many schools have fantastic music provision.
Government policy increasingly points teachers in the opposite direction, encouraging them to concentrate on students' results, said the study's author, Chris Watkins, a reader in education at the institute.
But "will it become part of the curriculum for secondary school pupils in Nigeria?" If so, thought one Nigerian reader, perhaps education authorities would want to "remove the sex scenes"?
Aged 50, Barbara finally achieved a senior academic position as reader in education at the Institute of Education and, after Jack's death in 1979, she became the research unit's director (1980-90) and was promoted to professor.
He predicted the break-up of the Soviet Union, the growth of the internet, the year in which computers would beat the best human chess players, the e-reader, online education, and dozens more.
Kalwant Bhopal, a reader in education at the University of Southampton, added: "We need to monitor the selection and recruitment processes happening in universities – institutions should consider who is applying for which posts, who is shortlisted and why".
The study, by Dr John Jerrim, reader in education and social statistics at the IoE, found that children of immigrants from high-achieving east Asian countries are still two-and-a-half years ahead of their western peers by the time they are 15, even when they are educated alongside them in western-style schools.
