Hundreds of teachers have signed up for a new no-strike legal service offering an alternative to trade union membership, it was claimed today.
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Exclusive: Outstanding schools struggle to fill headteacher jobs because applicants ‘can’t spell’
Sunday 26 January 2014
Just over half of the schools also say they have found it difficult to recruit governors with suitable skills
Ministers give green light to expansion of University Technical College scheme
Thursday 23 January 2014
The new drive means a total of 50 UTCs have now been approved
Chalk Talk: Are champions ready for the challenge?
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Off to the North of England education conference – the traditional curtain raiser of the year.
Tories reject proposal to charge wealthy parents to send children to top state schools
Sunday 19 January 2014
‘Radical proposals’ would have seen families contribute financially if they earn more than £80k
No Man's Land: Writings from a World at War, Edited by Pete Ayrton: Book review - moved by the master storytellers from the front line
Wednesday 15 January 2014
How Michael Gove would hate this trail-blazing book. Not just another Great War anthology, Pete Ayrton's selection gathers 47 authors from 20 of the countries that fought the first genuinely global conflict. He chooses only prose testaments – fiction, memoirs and, notably, that hybrid forerunner of the "new journalism" moulded by these writers' genre-busting ordeals.
Labour pledge to stop state schools employing unqualified teachers
Wednesday 15 January 2014
Labour will pledge to stop state schools employing unqualified teachers - and promise to bring an end to the current Government’s “ideological obsession” with school structures.
Nearly 50% of teachers have considered quitting jobs in past year
Thursday 19 December 2013
Increased stress and cuts in pay and pensions have led to high levels of dissatisfaction in profession
Downhills Primary School: A notorious school that has become an advert for the academy system
Thursday 19 December 2013
Academies champion goes against Michael Gove
Sunday 15 December 2013
Bright pupils ready to sit papers early are held back because of fear over dropping down league tables, says chief executive
Blow for supporters of selective schooling as Education Department vetoes major expansion of grammar school places in Kent
Friday 13 December 2013
Plans for a major expansion of grammar school places through the opening of a “satellite” school in Sevenoaks, Kent, have been vetoed by the Department for Education.
Richard Garner: The genetics route could spell a new direction for education
Wednesday 11 December 2013
Linking the words "genetics" and "education" can bring the hardiest of educationists out in a rash.
'I'm experiencing austerity as well', says Princess Michael of Kent
Monday 09 December 2013
Princess speaks of her love for the budget airline easyJet saying: 'it’s the only direct route to Biarritz'
Richard Garner: PISA test results are a disappointment but we should look to the future
Tuesday 03 December 2013
There is no way that the results of this year’s international PISA test results can be summed up as anything other than a disappointment for the UK.
Literacy and numeracy report: What the academics said
Tuesday 03 December 2013
Professor Robert Coe, from Durham University: “This seems to underline the view that improvements in GCSEs and some other examinations have had more to do with grade inflation than real sustained improvements over time.”
Outrage as failing South Leeds Academy seeks unqualified maths teachers
Friday 22 November 2013
Teachers' leaders and Labour education spokesman Tristram Hunt claim this is 'dumbing down'
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peopleUganda is set to become the world's least gay-friendly country. Its leading activist, Frank Mugisha, explains who is to blame
winter olympicsTwo young British snowboarders reach new heights at the snow event - and make the commentator slip up over their language
elephant appealDelegates from about 50 countries will meet in London this week to try to end the slaughter that feeds the illegal market in ivory
musicDisco maverick Planningtorock fills floors with feminism
lifeWhat those carefully chosen presents really say about you
artOn the eve of a major career retrospective at Tate Modern, Richard Cork recalls his meetings with the visionary artist
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Is Labour panicking over Ukip? Fears growing that Nigel Farage's party could eat into the white working class vote, admits Peter Hain
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Owen Jones on The Big Benefits Row: The Hopkinsisation of political discourse
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Six-year-old schoolboy suspended for having Mini Cheddars in his lunchbox has now been expelled
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British birth rate leaps by 18% in a decade
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Exclusive: Claimants lose all their income under disability benefits reform
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Is Tony Abbott's Australian administration the most hostile to his nation's environment in history?
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