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Teaching News (7/1/12) Posted: 07 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST Happy New Year! Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: The education secretary is being urged to ditch regulations limiting infant class sizes to 30 pupils, in order to save money. Education Secretary Michael Gove has accused those who oppose his academies programme of being “happy with failure”. The Education Secretary loses the concentration of his young audience shortly after beginning his defence of academies. Dozens of teachers facing allegations of incompetence and misconduct will escape official hearings owing to the abolition of the General Teaching Council for England, new figures suggest. A third of parents are so unhappy with their child's school they would advise other families not to send their children there, new figures from Ofsted have revealed. Schools are routinely cheating Ofsted inspections by bribing pupils, sending troublemakers home and rehearsing lessons, teachers have warned. Read the response from Ofsted here. The school day should be lengthened to prepare pupils for work, says Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg. Too many exams are ruining children's enjoyment of their time at school, a former schools adviser has said. How well children perform in the classroom could be linked to how physically active they are, suggests a Dutch review of previous studies. Children who grow up without a daily routine of set bedtimes and mealtimes do worse at school, a report suggests. The Commission on School Reform has urged Scottish schools to abandon what it called the “bog standard” model of comprehensive education. Schools are being encouraged by the UK’s top scientific body to bring cutting edge science into the classroom. Universities: University application numbers could be making a sharp recovery – according to figures from a university. A new type of privately-funded science and technology university has been announced by the universities minister. Other News: Children's access to smartphones and computers should be limited to stop them becoming "addicted" to electronic gadgets, according to a schools’ leader.

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