by Sam | 9 Jun 2014 | Education & Children's Services
From today, there will be a new two-stage inspection process whereby inspectors will check on the quality of training and the trainees’ teaching in the summer term. This will be followed by a second stage in the autumn term when Ofsted inspectors will see new teachers...
by Sam | 2 Jun 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The Government announced last week that it has established 548 teaching schools, surpassing its 2010 commitment to establish a network of 500 teaching schools by March 2015 by almost a year. In all, 95 per cent of England’s local authorities are now covered by the...
by Sam | 7 May 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services
David Blunkett MP has called on teaching unions to merge into a single body. The former education secretary said such a merger would be more likely to get respect from parents and could offer better representation of the profession by giving a “more coherent and...
by Sam | 24 Apr 2014 | Children and Families, Creative Industries, media and technology, Education & Children's Services
A report by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) has claimed that teachers are facing an increasing barrage of “vile” sexual abuse, unfair allegations of incompetence and videos of themselves taken without their consent being...
by Sam | 23 Apr 2014 | Children and Families, Economy, Education & Children's Services
Schools face further closures after the National Union of Teachers voted in favour of strike action in the ongoing row over pay, pensions and conditions. Delegates at the union’s conference in Brighton agreed that unless “significant progress” was made in talks with...
