A 1953 letter written by the-then six-year-old King Charles III to the late Queen Mother displays joined-up, well-spaced handwriting that is a rarity among children of the same age today.

Countries such as Finland have dropped joined-up handwriting lessons in schools in favour of typing courses. And in the US, the requirement to learn cursive has been left out of core standards ...

EYFS best practice - All about… handwriting. ... Schools in Finland have phased out cursive handwriting lessons in favour of keyboard skills, in the USA many states have removed joined-up writing from ...

In the battle to beat the spambots, a new weapon has been developed that exploits the difficulty that computers have with recognizing joined-up handwriting. The hope is that switching from text ...