| Teaching News and Events (28/1/12) Posted: 28 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST  Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few weeks. My wife and I have just had our first child, Joseph Warner, so he has been taking up lots of my time  Here are links to the latest teaching news and events: Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: - Gordon Brown is making an impassioned call for the international community to make education a higher priority – and to make a co-ordinated plan to achieve universal primary education by 2015.
- One in three of the children around the world who do not have access to primary education have a disability, says a report from the charity Sightsavers.
- The equivalent of more than 3,200 new primary schools will be needed by the end of the decade as the pupil population soars to a 50-year high, it emerged today.
- The public have responded enthusiastically to a Twitter appeal for questions for MPs to ask the Education Secretary, Michael Gove.
- Just one in 15 (6.5%) pupils starting secondary school in England “behind” for their age goes on to get five good GCSEs including English and maths, official data shows. In response to this, Brian Lightman, the General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders disagrees with the charge that schools are not helping some of their pupils.
- Two grammar schools are at the top of this year’s secondary school league tables for England. The BBC has also written this article about the academy finding itself at the bottom of the league tables and the difficult job that the head teacher and staff face. However, schools minister Nick Gibb has said he wants to stop schools prioritising their rankings in exam league tables over ensuring a good education for all their pupils.
- Almost eight-in-10 teenagers are being steered away from tough academic GCSEs amid fresh warnings that schools across England are “wasting talent”.
- Teachers at a primary school in Birmingham have gone on strike for a second time over plans to turn it into an academy.
- Primary school pupils at a Leeds school are being given anger management classes to curb bad behaviour, an Ofsted report has revealed.
- Teachers are having sleepless nights about whether to report suspected victims of child neglect, a report for a charity says.
- More than one in 10 school teachers accused of misconduct last year had used social networking sites and email to forge inappropriate relationships with their pupils, an analysis of disciplinary cases has found.
- More than 1,000 private schools are to be subjected to tough new inspections after Ofsted warned that teaching was "seldom inspiring".
- Pupils at a south London secondary school were surprised when Bill Gates turned up to give a special talk.
- The anti-monarchy group Republic is warning schools they may break the law if they take part in a cooking contest to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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