Ramsay Hodgson

6 days ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

Female teachers are more likely to suffer verbal abuse than their male counterparts, with more than one in four saying they experience such abuse several times a week. A further 14.3 per cent of female teachers reported suffering verbal abuse daily, compared with 9.8 per cent of male teachers, according to a survey by the NASUWT teaching union. Some 20.4 per cent of male teachers said they were verbally abused several times a week.

1 week ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

The general secretary of the NEU teaching union has claimed that large multi-academy trusts are “havens for higher workload and poorer work-life balance”. Daniel Kebede said it is a “myth” that academies are more attractive to teachers because they offer greater flexibility over pay and conditions.

1 week ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

Around one in three primary school teachers have warned that they have “little or no influence at all” over the content of individual lessons, research into the impact of standardised curriculum packages (SCPs) has found. SCPs can be “imposed from above” and “lead to teachers leaving the profession”, according to a report published today by the NEU teaching union. It defines SCPs as ready-to-go schemes of work, programmes or packages for teachers to follow.

2 weeks ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

The government risks missing its target of ensuring that 75 per cent of children are “school-ready” by 2028 unless it commits to overhauling the “precarious” funding system for children’s centres and Family Hubs, a think tank warns. A report from the Centre for Young Lives reveals that almost half of local authorities in England (49 per cent) expect cuts to their children’s centre and Family Hub budgets between 2023-24 and 2024-25.

2 weeks ago | tes.com | Ramsay Hodgson

Alleged Sats cheating has surged in the past two years amid greater scrutiny of transcripts, which are used when pupils’ handwriting may be illegible. Cases of key stage 2 Sats “maladministration” - actions that risk undermining the integrity of tests or could lead to results that do not reflect pupils’ genuine ability - rose to 609 last year, up from 386 in 2022 - a 58 per cent increase.