| Teaching News and Events (1/2/14) Posted: 01 Feb 2014 02:00 AM PST 
Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: - The interests of able readers are being threatened by an insistence primary school pupils are taught to read using phonics, an academic has said.
- Children face being at school for nine hours a day and see their holidays cut drastically under plans being examined by the Conservatives.
- It will be more than 70 years before all children have access to primary school, says a report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
- An extra £6m will need to be found by a government agency to check the condition of school buildings across England, a funding watchdog warns.
- The Chief Inspector of Ofsted has announced the start of a rolling programme of unannounced visits to schools where standards of behaviour are giving cause for concern.
- Michael Gove intervenes to put an end to an apparent row between Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw and the Department for Education, insisting he will sack advisors who brief against the watchdog.
- Research by Buckingham University finds that at least a third of would-be teachers enter training programmes without a good degree, with almost one-in-10 holding a third.
- The British Chambers of Commerce today published a proposal calling for cooperation between businesses and primary schools, to address ‘worrying trend of youth unemployment’.
- Mistakes are being made in exam marking because teachers are forced to grade papers at night, the headmistress of a leading girls’ school has said.
- Many schools in England are finding it “very difficult” to recruit senior staff, the National Governors’ Association says.
- Professionals helping child victims of sexual abuse are not keeping pace with technological advances, academics say.
- Teenagers aged 14 and 15 are most likely to be at risk from harm on the internet, according to research.
- A Northampton school has begun naming and shaming parents who park illegally when dropping their children off.
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