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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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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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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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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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Waivers on Tuition Scheme ‘Letting Students Down’
The United States’ ‘No Child Left Behind’ scheme is failing in a number of states.
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Ex-Military Personnel take short-cut into Teaching under new Scheme
A new government scheme has been announced which will enable former soldiers to qualify as teachers. The scheme, which is due to be piloted in 2014, will allow former soldiers who do not have degrees to sign up for a programme which will qualify them to teach in half the time it usually takes.
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Top Universities Fail to Widen Participation
This week the Office for Fair Access (Offa) has revealed that top universities in England have made little or no progress in recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds over the last 5 years.
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Drive to Create a National Association of Tutors
A think tank called ‘The Centre for Market Reform of Education’ is leading a drive to create a National Association of Tutors for the UK.
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Tuition Fees Should be Means-Tested
The education charity the Sutton Trust has urged the government to allow students from poor backgrounds to pay less in university tuition fees. The charity has said that university tuition fees should be means-tested in order to ensure that disadvantaged students are not prohibited from applying to university.
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