| Teaching News and Events (18/5/13) Posted: 18 May 2013 02:00 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: - Schools are to issue advice to parents on how to raise their children amid fears too many pupils are turning up to lessons unfit for the demands of full-time education, it was announced today.
- Primary schools in England are finding it more difficult to recruit head teachers than at any time since 2000, analysis suggests.
- A powerful union of headteachers has set up a school inspectorate in an attempt to eventually overthrow Ofsted.
- Scottish primary school teachers should have the equivalent of a science Higher before they enter the profession, according to a group of experts.
- Head teachers must pay the best teachers more money and resist pressure to set salaries based on the length of service in the classroom, the Education Secretary has warned.
- Pupils in England could be taught in bigger classes and by unqualified staff from next September, as a rising population puts pressure on school capacity, Labour has said.
- Education Secretary Michael Gove has defended his attack on a teacher who suggested students could create a Mr Men character based on Adolf Hitler.
- A reading campaign based around Premier League footballers has been a resounding success, according to the full report released by the National Literacy Trust.
- Top GCSE marks of A* and A could be replaced by a one to four numerical scale, education secretary Michael Gove has told MPs.
- People who struggle with maths problems might fare better after a course of gentle electric shocks to the brain, scientists have claimed.
- Young people are now much more likely to prefer to read on a computer screen rather than a printed book or magazine, according to a UK survey.
- The amount of physical education in schools has been cut despite a surge in enthusiasm for sport on the back of the London Olympics, according to research.
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