THIS WEEK
6-12 JULY 2013
SATURDAY
Princess charmed by potter
Harry Potter got the royal seal of approval when Princess Beatrice revealed that the novels had helped her to overcome dyslexia. Sitting in front of a book “was really hard” until she discovered the boy wizard, she said.
SUNDAY
Game, set and match ... Finally
It was a great day for Scottish nationalists - and the English and Welsh had a knees-up as well. Andy Murray became the first Briton to win a Wimbledon men’s singles title since Fred Perry in 1936.
MONDAY
Valuing the vocational
Young people have been climbing hills to gain their Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards since 1956. The Duke of York, his son, has now launched a similar scheme, to reward success in technical education.
TUESDAY
A taste of white house life
Sweet potato turkey slider, anyone? The novel snacks were among the winning recipes in a contest run by US first lady Michelle Obama - 54 young chefs, aged 8-12, attended a “state dinner” at the White House to celebrate.
WEDNESDAY
Encourage girls’ goals
Physical education teachers seeking role models for girls need look no further than the footballers playing in the Uefa Women’s Euro 2013 in Sweden, starting today. No sexist jokes about the offside rule, please.
THURSDAY
Well known and well-to-do
While many young people stress about getting a bar job to pay for university, there are others buying Ferraris with their small change. Forbes Magazine was due to publish its list of highest-paid celebrities under 30.
FRIDAY
Fighting for an education
Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban after campaigning for girls’ education, is due to speak today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, her first public talk since the attack.
NEXT WEEK
13-19 JULY 2013
SATURDAY
Give peas a chance
Forget cricket and baseball, the summer sport du jour is elite peashooting. The world championships will take place at Witcham in Cambridgeshire, England. Competitors may not bring their own peas.
SUNDAY
Prison break
It’s Bastille Day: what better moment to discuss revolution in history? In 1789, a mob of Parisians stormed the Bastille prison - a symbol of Bourbon tyranny - spurring on the French Revolution. Sacre bleu!
MONDAY
Left out of learning
International non-profit organisation Human Rights Watch is due to claim in a report on education in China that 40 per cent of up to 200 million disabled people in the country are illiterate.
TUESDAY
Blueprint for success
World-renowned architect Lord Rogers of Riverside - famous for his smartly designed schools - is to be honoured in a retrospective at the Royal Academy in London. Inside Out previews from today.
WEDNESDAY
Women of note
Bank of England bigwigs are set to discuss the imminent lack of women - apart from Elizabeth II - on banknotes. There have been calls for Queen Boudicca to appear. She defeated the Roman Ninth Legion, after all.
THURSDAY
Literary lookalikes
Ernest Hemingway fans in the US will flock to Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, Florida, for its annual Hemingway lookalike contest. Devotees will celebrate the writer’s life - and white beard - at the bar he used to frequent.
FRIDAY
Testing times
The International Mathematics Olympiad will be under way in Colombia. Young geeks from around the world will fight it out over some tricky question papers. Don’t forget to revise quadratic Diophantine equations.
