Posts on ‘December 30th, 2008’

English schools will receive almost three-quarters of a million pounds over the next two years to train their pupils to listen to one another’s problems.
Pupils in secondary schools and colleges will be taught to help classmates who struggle to form friendships or find it hard to express themselves.
Ministers hope the “peer mentors” will defuse arguments [...]

A teacher who was sacked for wearing trainers and tracksuit bottoms to school says it may lead to a strike.
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The Czech education ministry draws up guidelines for teachers to halt the growth of cyber bullying in schools.
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Darwin isn’t the only big anniversary of 2009, just the only big double anniversary. He was born in 1809, but so were Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Gogol and William Ewart Gladstone.
Darwin published On the Origin of Species (the “on” wasn’t dropped from the title until the 6th edition) [...]

The number of people interested in becoming teachers has soared since the start of the economic downturn.
The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) in England has reported a 40% increase in inquiries to its website since March, the beginning of the credit crunch.
The number of people eligible to teach maths is up 25% on [...]

One reason why the National Gallery remains the happiest and, in many respects, the most effective, of all the national museums and galleries, is the atmosphere established by Sir Michael Levey between 1973 and 1987, when he was director. Levey, who has died aged 81, was one of the most important figures in the British [...]

Teachers are threatening to go on strike at a London secondary school after one of their colleagues was sacked for wearing trainers and tracksuit trousers to work.
Adrian Swain, 56, was dismissed a week before Christmas from St Paul’s Way, a comprehensive in Tower Hamlets, east London. The special needs teacher had refused to stop wearing [...]

Pupils will be taught how to listen to each other’s problems and help classmates who struggle to form friendships or cope with bullying, under government plans announced today.
Secondary schools and colleges in England will receive £720,000 over the next two years to train “pupil mentors”.
The mentors will be coached in how to defuse arguments through [...]

Supporters of the 11-plus in Northern Ireland vowed yesterday to turn the future of academic selection into the major political struggle of the next months, both inside the Stormont assembly and outside.
Their warning came on the day that the deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, issued a robust defence of his Sinn Féin colleague Caitriona Ruane, [...]

The number of people interested in becoming teachers has risen sharply against the backdrop of the economic crisis, a training agency says.
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