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‘Digitally savvy’ businesses urged to work with schools

22/06/2016 - 09:57

'Digitally savvy’ businesses are being encouraged to work with school teachers to close the skills gap in STEM subjects.

Teacher leadership charities to merge

22/06/2016 - 09:26

Teaching Leaders and the Future Leaders Trust, two of the top leadership training charities for teachers, are set to merge.

53 per cent of teaching assistants have faced violence at school, research suggest

21/06/2016 - 16:37

53 per cent of classroom or teaching assistants working in schools across the UK have experienced physical violence over the past year, according to figures published by Unison.

Disadvantaged pupils receive lower quality maths instruction, report warns

21/06/2016 - 12:27

Disadvantaged pupils systematically receive lower quality mathematics instruction compared to their more advantaged peers, a new report from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has warned.

Unison calls for an end to term time contracts

21/06/2016 - 12:22

Unison has pledged to campaign for an end to school workers being employed on term time contracts.

Salford schools to issue drug warning

21/06/2016 - 12:21

Salford schools are set to issue new drug warnings to pupils, following the hospitalisation of three 12 year-old girls who took ecstasy.

Osborne’s £10m Mandarin teaching better invested elsewhere, O’Hagan says

20/06/2016 - 10:22

Carmel O’Hagan, the former head of languages at CILT The National Centre for Languages, has criticised Chancellor George Osborne’s £10 million investment in expanding the teaching of Mandarin, claiming it could have been better invested in language assistants.

Dwindling school nurses unable to help solve mental health crisis, RCN warns

20/06/2016 - 10:20

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said that school nurses could help tackle the crisis in children’s mental health, but that staff numbers were reducing.

90 per cent of teachers believe Sats stress harms mental health, survey suggests

20/06/2016 - 10:16

A new survey conducted by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) has found that nine out of 10 teachers believe the primary assessment has had a negative impact on their pupils.

Growing number of schools plugging funding gaps with pupil premium

17/06/2016 - 11:11

A growing number of schools are using pupil premium funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts, according to polling published by the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation.

16,000 new secondary school places needed within seven years

17/06/2016 - 11:08

More than 16,000 new secondary school places will be needed within the next seven years to meet rising demand, according to analysis by the BBC.

Scottish teachers vote for strike action over workload

17/06/2016 - 11:06

Secondary school teachers in Scotland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action due to excessive workload.

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