| Teaching News and Events (28/4/12) Posted: 28 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: - All children should be assessed by a school doctor before starting full-time education amid fears too many infants are unfit for the classroom, a leading academic has warned.
- Jamie Oliver has made a blistering attack on Michael Gove over school food, claiming that some of the education secretary’s flagship academies are lowering nutrition levels among pupils.
- Pupils should be tested every year to stop them "drifting" between key stages of their education, Michael Gove has said. He has also claimed that there is a direct link between children doing well academically and their chances of indulging in "risky behaviour".
- The number of teachers in England’s state school system fell by 10,000 in the year to November, new figures show.
- Children are growing up lacking a proper understanding of the past because key swathes of British and European history have been dropped by schools, academics have warned.
- Growing numbers of children are turning up at school malnourished, dirty and struggling to concentrate because of soaring poverty levels in the recession, a study suggests.
- The chief inspector of Scottish prisons has called for the creation of behaviour units in more schools to prevent young people ending up in jail.
- More than half of teachers took almost two weeks' worth of sick leave last year amid rising concerns over stress, workload and pupil behaviour, figures show.
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