Teaching must be exhilarating, exciting and people should enjoy it according the Geoff Barton the head of ASCL. This is an opportunity for those in the profession to play the key role in our nations best resource – young talent. Too often there are doom and gloom stories that rip the life and soul of of what should be one of the most rewarding careers available.
A parliamentary think tank says the education system is failing students by not preparing them for future careers by giving them the skills that businesses need. The two main reasons provided are that schools are not adequately funded in this area as well as high-staes accountability measures. Career advice is patchy and does not serve the needs of disadvantaged children in particular those with SEN and disability.
The new primary assessment plans have received a mixed review across the UK with may Heads not sure what to make of the proposals. Some major changes included getting rid of statutory tests at KS1 and bringing back a baseline assessment for all pupils. NAHT’s deputy director Nick Brook said “for the first time in years we are looking at a retreat from the rising tide of testing, moving the […]
The teaching profession seems to walking blindly into the abyss with huge workloads, poor pay and respect for the profession at an all time low. It is no surprise that people do not want to become teachers anymore. The teaching profession face a recruitment crisis like never before with attracting and retaining quality staff becoming harder and harder and in some cases nigh on impossible. The UK does not train […]
Labour’s shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has issued a stark and bleak outlook for the future of our schools. She highlights funding cuts. teachers supply and the governments commitment to grammar schools as the main areas of her concern. For the first time in a generation schools will actually face real term cuts in funding as the schools budget will not be protected in real terms and it will also […]
Sir Michael Wilshaw has backtracked on a comment he made during his tenure as Ofsted Chief Inspector. Refering to his comments in an interview with the TES he stated his one regret was where he said about teachers “not knowing what stress is”. He made the comments during his intial months as Chief Inspector and recently conceeded that “Knowing what I do now I wouldn’t say that” even though he […]
The IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies) has issued a warning that an expansion of the grammar school system in the UK will lead to “greater inequality” Prime Minister Theresa May is looking to expand the grammar system dramatically to try and increase social mobility and set out her plans last week. However, the IFS warned that while students who are successful in the 11 plus tend to do better those […]
Teachers are required to give everything they have got, and then some more in their pursuit of meeting the expectations of their jobs. Several teacher-authors have been writing articles on their own personal experiences and the struggle they are up against. Teachers are having to resort to spending their own money on sourcing and buying resources as well as working throughout most of their holidays to ensure they keep up […]
It’s mid August again and if you are a headteacher then you will, over the next few weeks, be invaded by the local media wanting to report on the latest sets of exam results. There isn’t purely the worry of potentially disappointing results but also how sterile the whole story has become with the focus generally on those who have achieved A and A* grades. Here are 3 key tips […]
The government has announced a total U-turn over plans to abolish the early years foundation stage profile and schools will continue to assess 4 and 5 year old pupils starting at school. The standards were set to become redundant from September 2016 after the plans were announced by the Department for Education in 2014. The decision to stick with the current format was due to an eagerness to “provide continuity […]
