I posted a while ago about the OCR examining board's plans to amalgamate Latin, Greek and Classical Civ A Levels into a single Classics A Level. This would be a considerable blow to the study of Classics in this country.

There is now an online petition to the government to try to prevent this from happening. You can sign it hereIf you have even ( Read more... )

Did you hear about the Rome studio nearly burning down? Apparently it's pretty badly damaged, meh! But on the plus side, there's going to be a Roman episode of Dr Who (follow that link).

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In far worse news, it seems they're going to introduce a 'Classics' A Level in place of the old Latin, Greek and Classical Civilisation ones. Thanks to toft_froggy for ( Read more... )