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Teaching Unions call Strikes in North-West
The National Union of Teachers has announced that 2,700 schools in the north-west of England will be subject to strike action. Staff at the schools are participating in a one-day strike over pay and pensions. The NUT and the NASUWT have said that more strikes should be expected in the autumn term, organised in response to government plans for later retirement, increased workload and detrimental changes to pensions.
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Students Gain from a Mix of Younger and More Experienced Teachers
New statistics emerged this week which show that the UK’s school teachers are the youngest in Europe. The survey, carried out by the OECD, showed that 60% of British primary school teachers are under 40, and 31% are under 30 year old. Only secondary schools in Brazil and Indonesia have more teachers under 40 years old than the UK. These figures have sparked debate surrounding working conditions for teachers and the potential problems and benefits of having young teachers in the classrooms.
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Experts Say New Curriculum is Not Fit for Purpose
Members of the groups hired to advise the government on the new curriculum have said that the current education plans will fundamentally damage the UK’s education system.
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Restyling Assessments
Pete's blog 1-7-13: I was really surprised last week to find out that two prospective tutors from my assessment days in Oxford and Cambridge were there, and I missed them...
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Schools Should do More to Help Girls into Maths and Science
Much more needs to be done to ensure that teachers do what they can to encourage girls, and avoid passing on the stereotypes of what subjects boys and girls are good at to their students
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Ofsted Proposes 'Superteacher' Scheme to help Disadvantaged Students
Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw delivered a speech this week in which he called for an education system which better addresses the needs of disadvantaged children. He said that poor children currently ‘unseen’ by the current system needed support from excellent teachers drawn from around the country. Wilshaw referred to this as a ‘national service’ for teachers, where ‘superteachers’ would be brought into mediocre schools to work with disadvantaged children.
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Do Not Leave it to Universities to Solve Education Disparities
Data has emerged recently which suggests that over half of students from the poorest economic backgrounds in the country want to go to university. This data is particularly poignant when taken with the fact that only 13% from the poorest backgrounds actually do go on to go to university.
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SAT Students Studying New Curriculum Will Take Old Tests
This week the Department for Education has confirmed that although students will begin studying the new national curriculum in 2014, they will be tested on the old one in 2015.
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Fewer Tutors in Oxford?
Pete's blog 24-6-13: Obviously I didn’t get much done last week other than all the assessments I did...
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