92% off Target for Education Mentor
Less than 8% off Target for Education Mentor Target for the government’s flagship programme of ‘Catch-Up Mentors’ to assist and help students learn through their missed lessons during Covid is currently 92% off, according to the Department for Education. The target from the government was to give extra tuition to 252,000 students throughout the country. […]
Councils – Asylum Seekers
Due to the highest number of asylum seekers coming into the UK in recent history; councils across the UK are to be forced to care for unaccompanied asylum seeker children as they arrive in the UK. Asylum Seekers coming This decision, is said, to be in the children’s best interest but it has not been […]
TikTok Abuse
TikTok teacher abuse videos; government stepping in. The UK government is currently working with TikTok to tackle videos posted on the platform by students insulting or abusing their teachers; some with racist or homophobic tendencies. TikTok Abuse This has come to light from headteachers who have voiced their concerns after videos emerged featuring pictures of […]
Staff Shortages from Covid
Teachers testing positive from Covid has more than doubled this term causing staff shortages across the country. Figures from the DfE show that 1.3 per cent of teachers have tested positive from Covid last week which is twice the rate from the middle of September. School Shortages Schools are facing a similar situation with support […]
DfE Revives Teacher Trainee Bursaries
The government will be reinstating a series of cash incentives for trainee teachers in a variety of subjects, due to a plateau of teacher recruitment during the Covid crisis. DfE U-Turn At the end of 2020, the DfE reduced or completely scrapped the bursaries for certain subjects, have now taken a complete U-turn on the […]