The organisation Global Acts of Unity (GAU) has launched a new poetry competition and it’s asking young people (aged 11-18) to enter by expressing what ‘unity’ means to them, for a chance to win £100 worth of vouchers and £500 worth of supplies for their school....
2020 marks 80 years since Allen Lane founded Puffin, the biggest children’s book publisher in the world. To celebrate this major anniversary, Puffin have announced an exciting series of activities to champion the power of reading and inspire children to dream big. The...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are key buzzwords from the computer science industry, referring to machines that carry out smart tasks – and they are no longer distant prospects of the future. The phenomenon is already proliferating modern day...
National Poetry Day celebrates its 25th anniversary on 3rd October with a campaign themed around ‘truth’. Each year there is a different theme inspiring thousands of events and workshops across the UK. They are taking place everywhere, from schools and libraries to...
Alice Oswald has been appointed the first female Oxford Professor of Poetry in the role’s 300 year history. She will succeed Simon Armitage – who has just been elected as the UK’s new Poet Laureate – from 1 October 2019, to become the 46th Professor of Poetry, as...
