| Teaching News and Events (18/1/14) Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST 
Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: - The education of 500,000 children in the UK is suffering because they have no home internet, campaigners say - with the poorest often most at risk.
- Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw says that teachers should stop presenting themselves as “victims”.
- A “champions league” of leading head teachers are to be parachuted into struggling schools who need new leaders but cannot attract the right people.
- Raising the quality of teaching, rather than creating new types of school structure, is the way to raise standards, says Labour's Tristram Hunt.
- Long hours, low pay and an utter lack of support make teaching an unappealing prospect, explains this article in the Telegraph.
- Parents do all the homework in one in six families – but many often find themselves flummoxed by the tasks, research finds.
- Manufacturers risk turning girls off careers in science and maths by producing gender-specific toys, the Education Minister has warned.
- School governors will in future only be appointed if they have the skills and experience to drive school improvement, under plans announced by the government.
- A father fined £630 for taking his children on a week-long break in Greece during the school term has accused the government of imposing “inflexible” holiday rules on headteachers.
- Allowing teenagers to start school 25 minutes later improves their sleep patterns and mood, researchers have found.
- Teachers have not paid enough attention to poorly performing white children for fear of being seen as racist, an Ofsted inspector has suggested.
- Teachers should be banned from carrying out full-time trade union duties at the taxpayers' expense, the Government has warned.
- Unclear admission rules mean many summer-born children in England are missing a year of education or starting school too early, campaigners claim.
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