The government is sending council children’s services chiefs on intensive training programmes to help them deal with complex child protection cases in the wake of the Baby P tragedy.
The move will address concerns that children’s services directors have been too focused on schools at the expense of social care. Since children’s services departments were merged [...]
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Intensive training for children’s services directors in wake of Baby P tragedy
£100,000 fails to attract secondary school heads
England and Wales face a chronic shortage of headteachers this year, despite state schools advertising £100,000 salaries for some posts. Schools are struggling to fill posts at a time when increasing numbers are expected to retire, according to the annual survey of headship vacancies by analysts Education Data Surveys (EDS).
The problem was more acute in [...]
Big salaries fail to attract school heads
Salaries of up to £120,000 a year are failing to woo enough heads to run state schools, statistics show. The percentage of schools having to readvertise headship vacancies during the past year rose in the primary and secondary sectors.
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Head teacher shortage continues
Primary schools in England are still having problems filling vacancies for head teachers, analysis suggests.
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Intern plan to ease graduate woes
Students who are unable to secure jobs after leaving university may be offered paid internships, it has emerged.
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Warning on replacing Sats tests
An expert group is considering what should replace the scrapped Sats tests for 14 year olds in England.
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Melissa Benn on the emotional fallout of state schooling and private education
A few years ago, Amanda Snow’s parents-in-law handed her an oddly burdensome gift. They offered to pay for her child to go to the prep school that her husband’s father had attended, for which he still nursed strong nostalgic feelings. There was one snag. Amanda Snow has not one but three children, and her parents-in-law [...]
Mummy bonds to coax parents back to work
Parents who take long career breaks to look after their children are to be rewarded with £500 in training grants to coax them back into work.
The grants will inevitably be dubbed “mummy bonds” in an echo of the last universal benefit: the £250 “baby bonds” allocated to every newborn child in a savings account [...]
Louise Tickle on starting a business in rural areas
If you grew up in the country and went on to university, chances are you’ll have hung up your wellies for good. Lack of graduate employment opportunities has meant brains drain rapidly away from rural areas, and tend not to return after finals.
But if you’re a country-bumpkin-turned-city-slicker, who ultimately finds the rat race [...]
Academics well placed to ride out downturn
Academics are well placed to ride out the current economic downturn, new figures on pay and retention of staff in universities and colleges suggest.
The research by university employers found that academics are now well paid compared with other sectors, and jobs in higher education have been relatively secure since 2005.
But the data was collected before [...]