News archive for 31st March 2018

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Scotland: Outcry at threat to limit music tuition to wind and brass - Scotsman Teachers warn zero tolerance discipline in schools is feeding mental health crisis - Telegraph Zero tolerance approach to bad behaviour in schools amount to 'child abuse', teachers claim - Independent Teacher unions threaten national strike action ballot over pay - Independent GCSE revision tips suggesting students revise for seven hours a day met with outrage from teenagers - Independent Schools funding crisis could swing election, union conference told - Guardian Teachers' unions vote for strike action over government pay cap - Guardian Teachers vote to consider industrial action over pay - Mail Gender pay reporting is just the start of a drive to transparency - Financial Times Zero tolerance discipline in schools 'an abuse of children's rights' - Times Educational Supplement | TES NUT commits to teacher pay strike ballot - Schools Week Being a new dad and a teacher: shame, tears and life-affirmingly beautiful moments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers back prospect of national strike over pay - BBC Stop 'beasting' pupils in English and maths, Ofsted director tells primary schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Housing crisis leading to teachers `living like students´ in halls of residence - Mail 'I took an overdose at my desk': Teachers speak about about the mental health 'pandemic' gripping the profession - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers have felt voiceless in the education debate for years – this must be the NEU's top priority - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers have felt voiceless in the education debate for years – this must be the NEU's top priority - Times Educational Supplement | TES The school that has a 'gift list' - BBC Three in 10 teachers using medication to cope with pressure of job - Times Educational Supplement | TES How a ‘balance bike’ approach to training will give us better teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Secret Teacher: my school's endless rules do more harm than good - Guardian Teachers' poll reveals impact of cuts on English state schools - Guardian Scotland: Scrutiny of literacy and numeracy at worst level in 60 years, warns academic - Herald Scotland Scotland: Testing times for evaluation of school progress - Herald Scotland Is there a north-south divide in England's schools? - BBC Schools cutting posts amid 'funding catastrophe' - BBC Four in five teachers have been sexually harassed or bullied at school, study suggests - Independent Fifth of teachers say schools have asked parents for funding help - Mail Call for mobile phones to be banned in schools in a bid to save teachers from 'upskirting' - Mail One in five teachers has been sexually harassed, survey says - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching posts cut at 80% of secondaries, union survey finds - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities give out unconditional offers like candy, say head teachers - Times Stressed out teachers are increasingly turning to drugs to get through the school day - Mirror NUT conference 2018: 77% of primary teachers report SEND cuts - Schools Week