| Teaching News and Events (18/2/12) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: - MPs have set up a new group to safeguard the teaching of religious education to pupils in England.
- Michael Gove is considering basing his first wave of specialist maths free schools on the little-known Kolmogorov Physics and Mathematics School in Moscow, Russia.
- Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted, says unless schools have outstanding teaching, they could be stripped of that rating overall.
- Schools in England which fail inspections usually go on to improve, a study suggests.
- Tens of thousands of pupils are leaving primary school with the maths ability of a seven-year-old, new research has revealed.
- Schools are failing to teach youngsters the reading and writing skills needed to get a job putting the UK at risk of further riots, the head of Prince Charles's teaching institute has warned.
- Parents are worrying that a shortage of places is creating “supersize” primary schools, according to the Netmums website.
- Researchers are to investigate whether following a set of systematic movements for 10 minutes a day in class can boost pupils’ results.
- A secondary school has instructed its pupils to stop using slang words such as hiya, cheers and ta, to enhance their prospects of landing a top job.
- London has come second, beaten only by Paris, in a ranking of the world’s 50 best cities for students.
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