So Many Teachers are Lonely at Schools
Amanda Martin, the new president of the NEU teaching union, states that ‘teaching is still the best job in the world, it’s just tough.’ Amanda’s main goals as the president is to try and make teaching less tough and less lonely. Teachers spend so many hours planning and marking, being with their students and jumping […]
Do Teachers Need One-To-One Support?
Unfortunately, in education, you hear some horror stories; from the children themselves or their families, teachers hear some disturbing tales. A teacher’s union has questioned whether teachers need support, possibly one-to-one, in order to deal with being ‘on the front line of their students’ narratives. Domestic Violence and Drug Abuse It is, of course, important […]
Education Spending Fall
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) education establishments, including schools and colleges, in England have suffered the worst fall in spending since the 1970s. The recent government has committed to increasing the funding within schools which amounts to £4.3 billion a year by 2022 which will ‘just about reverse’ the 8 per cent […]
Quarter of Teachers Unprepared to Talk Periods
Over a quarter of teachers feel they are unprepared to teach lessons on menstruation with huge amounts of pupils going to them in distress about periods. As of September 2020, teaching menstruation will be compulsory in sex education so perhaps training should be required for some. When asked what educators need to be able to […]
‘Outstanding’ Schools No Longer Exempt from Regular Inspections
It used to be that if your school achieved an ‘outstanding’ outcome from an Ofsted, that it would be a very long time until they returned. In some extreme cases, some children would start school in nursery and go all the way through to finish in Year 6 and never have an Ofsted; this is […]