General
Wednesday
20th Apr 2022
Financial education: making it an essential part of school
Teaching children about money can seem an enormous task so it is important to start young, says Gillian Darroch
Why teaching still has a diversity problem
Despite positive advances in the diversity of initial teacher training, Dan Worth and Helen Lock find that unless more efforts are made to retain these teachers at the start of their careers and offer routes to leadership, it will be a wasted opportunity
Tuesday
19th Apr 2022
9 in 10 teachers ‘want media literacy in national curriculum’
Children need to know more about fact checking and online safety, warns parliamentary group
Covid: Lack of attendance data ‘deeply troubling’
Warnings come as DfE releases first attendance data since telling schools to stop recording Covid-related absence
Behaviour: how to be more innovative with school ethos
Good behaviour should be constantly exemplified in a school, says Raymond Soltysek
Academy trust financial reserves rise by almost a third
But financial position is unsustainable owing to Covid, warns academies group leader
Sunday
17th Apr 2022
‘Stop attacking teachers who put their lives on the line’, says union head
The government has been told to provide teachers with a real pay rise, a working time limit, and the end of fire and rehire, in a scathing speech today
Rising class sizes having ‘negative impact’ on behaviour
Most teachers (90 per cent) who responded to a NASUWT survey said an increase in class sizes was worsening behaviour in schools
Saturday
16th Apr 2022
6 in 10 teachers ‘would strike over pay freeze’
NASUWT survey reveals anger with government over pay
Teachers ‘popping pills’ to cope with workload
Survey shows 6 in 10 teachers report workload has ‘increased significantly’ over the past year
Nearly 3/4 of female teachers experience misogyny in schools
Four in ten teachers surveyed by NASUWT said no action was taken after they reported misogyny to their school management