| Teaching News and Events (8/2/14) Posted: 08 Feb 2014 02:00 AM PST 
Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: - Primary schools in England are going to share an extra £150m per year sports funding until 2020, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
- Schools in England and Wales are set to be hit by a teachers’ strike on 26 March in a dispute over pay, pensions and conditions, the NUT has said.
- State schools in England should be more like private schools, says Education Secretary Michael Gove.
- Litter picking in the playground, removing graffiti and cleaning the dining hall are all sanctions teachers should consider to clamp down on bad behaviour, Education Secretary Michael Gove has said.
- Graduates who take up a maths teaching post at a further education (FE) college in England are to be given a “golden hello” of £7,500.
- Christian stories such as the Nativity, Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark and the Good Samaritan risk being "lost to future generations" because of a decline in exposure to the Bible, according to research.
- Coding clubs network Code Club is launching a training programme to teach computing skills to British primary school teachers, backed by £120,000 of funding from Google.
- Schools are being urged to admit two-year-olds into on-site nurseries to ease the shortage of childcare.
- Playing violent video games for long periods of time can hold back the “moral maturity” of teenagers, according to a study in Canada.
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