| Teaching News and Events (29/6/13) Posted: 29 Jun 2013 02:00 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: - UK teachers are increasingly dissatisfied and many have considered quitting, a union survey has suggested.
- Union have warned of more regional strikes and a national one-day walkout across England and Wales in the autumn.
- The schools budget for England will remain protected from budget cuts in the government’s spending review.
- The government has pledged to spend £10bn repairing school buildings in England up to 2021 and says a scheme to re-build the worst schools will be finished two years ahead of schedule.
- Rapid expansion of the government’s academy and free school programme has exacerbated a chronic shortage of places for children, the House of Commons’ spending watchdog has warned. However, schools will offer places to another half a million children within the next decade to cope with a surge in the population, ministers have said.
- Britain’s primary school teachers are by far the youngest among developed countries, and its teachers across all levels are younger than their European counterparts.
- The proportion of 18-year-olds in full-time education has fallen for the first time in England since 2001 but more are in work, official data suggests.
- Almost a quarter of a million children registered for free school meals are not receiving them, figures show.
- Leaked papers show that experts employed to advise the government on the new national curriculum say it lacks rigour, and in English could lower standards of reading.
- The role of play is being sidelined in England’s nurseries because of government shifts towards more formal learning, experts say.
- Children may be missing out on educational opportunities early in life because of a lack of qualified staff in nurseries, the OECD suggested.
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