| Teaching News and Events (4/5/13) Posted: 04 May 2013 02:00 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: - Many teachers, heads and parents lack confidence in GCSE grades, research into perceptions of secondary school exams in England suggests.
- The speaking and listening element of GCSE English will no longer form part of the overall grade, under proposals from England’s exams regulator Ofqual.
- A growing number of England’s school leaders are on six-figure salaries, Department for Education data shows.
- Pupils at many state-funded schools in England are missing out on practical science experiments because of a lack of basic equipment, a report suggests.
- More than a third of schools in England are failing to provide pupils with age-appropriate sex-and-relationships education, the schools watchdog says.
- Ofsted has published 'Not yet good enough', a report which evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education.
- Bribing children from poor homes with cash rewards to attend school, do their homework and read books is the most effective way to improve their exam results, a major research project has concluded.
- Children should be encouraged to take risks and make their own mistakes while they are still young enough to learn from them, a heads’ leader says.
- Today’s children now learn to tie their shoelaces at a later age than ever before, a new report has found.
Next week's Teaching Events include: - 5th May – International Midwives Day
- 8th May – Victory in Europe Day
- 9th May – Ascension Day
- 12th – International Nurses Day
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