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Government funding of university research at lowest proportion since 1900s
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Time to rethink our approach to teaching
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The impact of Gove’s reforms on teachers’ everyday working lives
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Opinion: Another great sporting summer for Britain, but PE lessons need...
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One of Scotland’s major teaching unions has warned that virtually every school north of the border now faces closure on the November 30th as public sector workers prepare for a day of action in protest...
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Sally Hunt is the general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) A report out this morning by the University and College Union (UCU) has revealed annual public spending on university...
View ArticleCoalition should heed Obama’s advice on higher education – not slash teaching...
Sally Hunt is the general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama made a strong defence of the importance of higher...
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Time to rethink our approach to teaching
. Louise Thomas is a senior researcher at the RSA The coalition government’s 2010 White Paper (pdf) emphasises that the importance of teachers to the improvement of the English education system....
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We need a Teach First scheme for frontline children’s social work
Josh MacAlister is a teacher, a researcher at IPPR and a Teach First ambassador; his report, “Frontline: Improving the children’s social work profession” is available here The quality and quantity of...
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As we reach the end of term, it is time to reflect on a tumultuous year for the teaching profession, which has had to cope with, amongst other things, controversy over GCSE grading and the new English...
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Rugby during PE lessons was a uniquely torturous horror at school. It was usually cold and raining and the field always seemed to be a mass of mud and sludge. For myself and many other children it was...
View ArticleGovernment must urgently fix ‘shambolic’ assessment system, says school...
TUC Congress has today voted in favour of a motion calling on the government to address its ‘chaotic and confusing’ system of assessing school children’s academic performance. Seconding the motion on...
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