Clik here to view.
Kipper Bill Etheridge Wants Return of Caning in Schools
This is another meme from the Hope Not Hate Facebook page, The Real UKIP, I found over at the SlatUKIP site. UKIP’s candidate for the West Midlands, Bill Etheridge, amongst his other bizarre and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
London needs teachers
An analysis of the first 5,600 vacancies recorded in TeachVac www.teachvac.co.uk the free service for schools and teachers that allows schools to place job announcements and those vacancies to be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ship no longer looks as steady
The publication today by UCAS of the end of cycle report for the 2014 teacher training admissions scheme has produced some interesting new data that raises questions about some of the assumptions in my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Perfect Storm
There are teacher shortages in various subject areas. Maths, Physics, Computing to name but three. There are less people applying to enter teacher training this year than last and fewer in training...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nicky Morgan Refuses to Answer Questions on Failing Private Schools on...
This is another story I’m late covering. Nevertheless, it’s still important as it shows the way the Tories will refuse to answer any questions that threaten to upset their policy of privatising...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Learning Policy: Marking (Part 1 of 3) by @TeacherToolkit
If you were a school leader of teaching and learning, what would you do with one-hundred teachers in a school to raise standards? Introducing: This is part one of a three-part Learning Policy that is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Learning Policy: Planning (Part 2 of 3) by @TeacherToolkit
If you were a school leader of teaching and learning, what would you do with one-hundred teachers in a school to raise standards? Introducing: This is part two of a three-part Learning Policy that is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time for radical solutions
Secondary schools across England might well have been facing much greater issues over staffing their timetables for September than they are but for the syphoning off of cash into increased National...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Warning lights flashing amber
The publication today of the 2014 School Workforce Census data by the government https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014 allows a review of the key indicators...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Counting the Pounds
In a couple of weeks the Cabinet member with responsibility for schools in Oxfordshire will be asked to revoke a decision by a maintained school to open a sixth form. Had the school been an academy it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cameron: Maths and Science Students Should Get £15,000 Bursaries
The I yesterday carried a story that Cameron had announced that his party is planning to award bursaries of £15,000 to high-performing students if they go on to study Maths and Physics at university....
View ArticleClik here to view.
News on the pay front
The latest report from the School Teacher Review Body was published today. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-teachers-review-body-25th-report-2015 The report is useful in that it brings...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Anti-Socialist Accusation: ‘This Is the Politics of Envy’
Another argument that is frequently made by Conservatives against Socialism, or any form of state intervention to the reduce the power of the very rich, and transfer some of their material wealth to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another manifesto for teacher education
Yesterday the Million+ group of universities launched their Manifesto for Teacher Education in a dining room at the House of Commons. The Chair, the VC of Staffordshire University was flanked by two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fox News Sneers at Harvard Students for Attacking American Imperialism
‘Do I detect a certain anti-intellectualism here? Yeah, it started around 1982, I guess’. – Bill Hicks on the dumbing of America after Reagan’s election. I found this clip on Youtube of The Young Turks...
View ArticleThe 7 Deadly Sins of Teaching
If you could list 7 of the worst habits found in teachers and in teaching, what would they be? 1.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Acceptances increase to meet recruitment challenge
Many years ago I wondered what would happen if women stopped applying to become teachers. The policy aim over the past has witnessed attempts to reverse the decline in applications from men while no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Government sees history as more important than design & technology
The new scheme to fund courses to attract returners to teaching in Ebacc subjects, but not in other shortage subjects such as design and technology and business studies, shows a government that values...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is the lack of a London allowance affecting teacher training numbers in London?
What is happening in London? The data released by UCAS yesterday on applications and applicants for graduate teacher training courses as at the middle of September – after most courses will have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Incentives and ageism
This week the DfE announced the new bursary rates for trainees starting teacher preparation courses in the autumn of 2016. The headline grabbing rate is the £30,000 tax free bursary or scholarship...
View Article
