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Teaching News and Events (20/10/12) Posted: 20 Oct 2012 02:00 AM PDT Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: The education secretary, Michael Gove, is to shake up the A-level system as he moves to introduce the principles of the international baccalaureate to schools in England. The proportion of teenagers achieving at least five good GCSEs including English and maths has fallen for the first time, official figures show. Prime Minister David Cameron’s former policy chief has called for profit-making firms to be brought in to run England’s persistently failing schools. Pupils in England’s schools took fewer days off school last year, Department for Education data shows. More than one-in-seven boys is unable to write his own name at the age of five amid fresh warnings over an emerging gender gap at an early age. Michael Gove has unveiled plans for an overhaul of ICT teacher training with help from top technology firms including Facebook, Microsoft and IBM. The University of Reading has been trying to revolutionise the way science is seen by schoolchildren, giving hundreds of teenagers the opportunity to think outside the constraints of the curriculum. A charity which aims to take two pupils from every UK school to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland has marked its 100th trip. Headteachers at schools from around Stockport have been invited to join officers on patrol in known troublespots on Friday and Saturday nights. Parents: Parents without the “time or inclination” to make breakfast for their children are blamed by teachers for more pupils going to school hungry. Nearly a third of UK parents read their children a bedtime story once a week or less, a survey suggests. Supportive parents do more than good schools to boost children’s exam results, a study suggests. Next week's Teaching Events include: 1st to 31st October – The Big Draw 1st to 31st October – Walk to School Month 16th to 26th October – National Schools Film Week 27th October – RSPB Feed the Birds Day

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