A Labour peer is coaching teachers on how they can refuse returning to the classroom without breaking the law, a leaked dossier has revealed. John Hendy QC, one of the country’s preeminent labour law scholars, has briefed various teachers’ unions on how their members can avoid the sack by using employee protection laws, according to … Read more
Boris Johnson today insisted he has ‘no doubt’ it is safe for schools to reopen as he was urged to emulate Thatcher’s battle against coal miners and force teaching unions to get children back in class. Tory MPs are demanding the PM stays ‘unbreakable’ despite claims of attempts to sabotage his drive to get all … Read more
Boris Johnson was today urged to emulate Thatcher’s battle against coal miners and force teaching unions to get children back in schools. Tory MPs are demanding the PM stays ‘unbreakable’ despite claims of attempts to sabotage his drive to get all pupils back in classes in England next month. There are also increasing signs of … Read more
Perhaps wisely, given his picaresque personal history, Boris Johnson has never been one to base his politics on an appeal to morality. But he did so yesterday. The Prime Minister declared that ‘keeping our schools closed a moment longer than absolutely necessary is socially intolerable, economically unsustainable and morally indefensible’. If we agree that educating … Read more
Teachers union tries to sabotage school reopening plan with ‘impossible’ list of 200 safety demands National Education Union has provided its half a million members with ‘checklist’ If these demands are not met, the union urges staff to ‘escalate’ their quarrel Robert Halfon MP accused the union of ‘nitpicking’ and overlooking the children By Jack Elsom … Read more
Exam bosses responsible for accrediting qualifications in Scotland have marked down 124,564 pupils – after ‘optimistic’ teachers tried to give them the highest results in history for their coronavirus-cancelled tests. The Scottish Qualifications Authority downgraded the students’ marks for the exams that were not sat, changing a massive 93.1 per cent of all the moderated … Read more
Exam bosses responsible for accrediting qualifications in Scotland have marked down 124,564 pupils – after ‘optimistic’ teachers tried to give them the highest results in history for their coronavirus-cancelled tests. The Scottish Qualifications Authority downgraded the students’ marks for the exams that were not sat, changing a massive 93.1 per cent of all the moderated … Read more
Florida has set a record for new infections after reporting 15,300 coronavirus cases on Sunday – the highest single-day total for any state – as three Arizona teachers who shared the same classroom catch the virus before one died from the illness while some of the state’s morgues near capacity. Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, … Read more
Florida has set a record for new infections after reporting 15,300 coronavirus cases on Sunday – the highest single-day total for any state – as three Arizona teachers who shared the same classroom catch the virus before one died from the illness while some of the state’s morgues near capacity. Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, … Read more
Trainee teachers are more likely to see Black children as being ‘more angry’ than white youngsters, regardless of their actual emotional state, a study has concluded. US researchers showed prospective teachers clips of young child actors performing different emotions — and asked them to identify the expressions that they saw. The participants were found to … Read more