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Teaching News and Events (8/10/11)

Explore this week’s education news articles and find out about educational events that are taking place next week.

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Teaching News and Events (9/7/11)

Read this week’s education news headlines and discover some upcoming educational events.

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Teaching News and Events (18/6/11)

Read about this week’s education news… and discover Teaching Events that can be used as the starting point for learning in your classroom!

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Teaching News and Events (8/1/11)

Happy New Year! I hope that you enjoyed the Christmas break. Here are links to some recent education-related news: The quality of science education in England’s secondary schools has improved in the past three years, Ofsted inspectors say. You can read the official report here. More than one-in-10 state secondary schools in England are now [...]

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Teaching News and Events (20/11/10)

Teaching News and Events (20/11/10)

Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced plans to more than double the number of top head teachers helping struggling schools in England. However, most of England’s best teachers are deterred from becoming heads because of the pressures of targets, according to a survey of their own [...]

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Teaching News and Events (2/10/10)

Teaching News and Events (2/10/10)

Here are some of this week’s education-related headlines: “No touch” rules discouraging teachers from restraining and comforting children are to be scrapped. Surrey County Council is exploring plans to turn all of its secondary schools into academies. Meanwhile, the Lib Dem executive member for education has written a letter to the Guardian claiming that academies [...]

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This week's Education News (11/9/10)

This week's Education News (11/9/10)

Here are links to a selection of education-related news articles: The National Audit Office has warned that the rapid expansion of England’s academies programme risks being poor value for money. Michael Gove responded with this comment. The former chairman of the Accounts Commission in Scotland has said that education authorities there should be merged in [...]

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This week's Education News (3/7/10)

This week's Education News (3/7/10)

This post contains links to this week’s education related news stories: More academy news… Schools will not be required to consult with parents or staff before converting to academies, according to this report… A list of schools who have expressed an interest in becoming an academy was published… New data has also questioned the success [...]

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This week's Education News (26/6/10)

This week's Education News (26/6/10)

Here’s a round-up of this week’s education-related news stories: In his budget statement, George Osbourne, warned that education spending in England could be cut by as much as 25% over the next four years. The chair of Ofsted has resigned, fuelling speculation that ministers plan significant changes at the organisation. An announcement is expected next [...]

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This week's Education News (12/06/10)

This week's Education News (12/06/10)

Here is this week’s collection of education news stories: I seem to have mentioned lots of stories about academies in recent weeks. However, the TES is now reporting that ‘the government will be forced to slash the number of academies it had hoped to create by September due to a lack of time and resources’. [...]

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