Sentences with phrase «of teaching union»

«The lengths that the DfE and education ministers will go to to use taxpayers money to defend the indefensible is quite startling and extremely worrying,» said Mary Bousted, the general secretary of teaching union ATL.

Chris Keates, general secretary of teaching union the NASUWT, said there was «no evidence that simply changing the status of a school improves standards».

But the regional organiser of the teaching union NASUWT Simon Kennedy said money invested in «half empty» free schools could be better spent elsewhere.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of teaching union ATL, wrote on Twitter: «What about qualification reform?

Elaine Edwards, general secretary of teaching union Ucac, said: «In the wake of the highly politicised GCSE English debacle this year, there is a very serious need to renew the credibility and integrity of the regulatory systems.»

The charter was drawn up by with representatives of teaching union officials from Unison, the National Union of Teachers, the National Association of Head Teachers, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.

Chris Keates, general secretary of teaching union Nasuwt, welcomed the new funding, and also described ministers» attempts to promote the use of locally produced food in schools as «a creative and mutually beneficial strategy».

The hugely controversial academy programme and his attack of the teaching unions were deeply criticised at the time.

Following both as they team up and try to rally enough parents to take over the school and turn things around, the film becomes a sort of mums - on - a-mission movie, with Jamie and Nona leading the fight to free their government - failed children from the tyranny of the teaching unions once and for all.

Similar sentiments have been echoed by Liberal Democrat education spokesman Liam McArthur, who said: «I would urge the government to heed the calls of teaching unions, teachers and parents to drop plans for national standardised testing in primary schools.»

Government sources have told the BBC that leading educationalists in the US have had to face similar issues to their contemporaries in England, not just in raising standards but in responding to the demands of teaching unions.

Originally launched at a special EIB conference of head teachers in Nottingham on 16 September, the Charter has received the support of teaching unions and education watchdog Ofsted.

Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, defended the agreement, however, and said that all of the teaching unions represented on the island had had the opportunity to forge such agreements.

During his Daily Politics interview, Mr Gibb also proved he was more than willing to bat for the government in its criticism of teaching unions and Labour, which have both come under recently for alleged scaremongering.

Not exact matches

After beginning her career with Chevron, Gordon has managed an active energy and environmental consulting practice, taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and directed the Energy Policy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

That is the teaching of every Pope who has spoken on the subject, affirmed by bishops in union with him.

The college of bishops in union with the Bishop of Rome, and bishops individually, are thought to have a special charism for teaching on matters of «faith and morals.»

Iniatially, the Magisterial (Teaching) Authority of the Catholic Church was collegial, the Pope in union with the Bishops.

Ted Peters teaches systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and is board chair of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at GTU.

The council also led to a renewal of the liturgy, an affirmation of religious freedom and the primacy of conscience, a rejection of church - state unions, an openness to the truth of other religions (especially Judaism) and a renewed sense that the church's teaching authority resides in all of the faithful, not exclusively in the hierarchy.

And is spite of what your church has taught you... God has blessed many sexual unions where marriage was not involved, and a great many more beyond the church notion of one man and one woman for life.

Through this same vision we are able to teach and encourage the way of holiness and prayer as personal fulfilment in both wisdom and joy through humble union with the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.

We must ensure that our Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman, the need for human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth about our sexual identity as male or female.

Some Sufis even denounced the Pillars of Islam and taught that union with God is the aim of Islam, a pantheistic doctrine which is heretical.

Today, tens of thousands of religious organizations, and tens of millions of Americans, continue to believe and teach that the proper understanding of marriage is a union of one man and one woman.

In the case of sex, the sexual organs have an inbuilt procreative purpose, and as Humanae Vitae n. 12 teaches, the sexual act has the two inherent meanings of procreation and union.

He concludes that, since «sexual union is not part of the essence of marriage, as the Catechism of the Council of Trent and Vatican II teach, consequently, the exercise of the sexual act between divorced and [civilly] remarried couples does not harm the existing sacramental bond.»

My attempt to recognize the importance of women's experience in theology is found in the classes I teach at Union, and also in a section on «Black Theology and Black Women» in Black Theology: A Documentary History, 1966 - 1979, by Gayraud S. Wilmore and James H. Cone.

Again at Mt. 28:16 - 20 we have a union of grace and demand within Jesus» command, since the imperative to teach new converts to obey all Jesus has taught is accompanied by his promise to be «with» them.

Here the language of the Fourth Gospel approximates to that of contemporary Hellenistic mysticism, which taught that by gnosis man might enter into union with God, and so become divine and immortal.

Jacob Rees - Mogg's respect for local democracy and resistance to the centralizing tendencies of the European Union are consistent with the Catholic social teaching of subsidiarity.

Indeed the Gita teaches that «when a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.»

He was a parish minister for thirteen years in Detroit; he taught for a third of a century at Union Theological Seminary in New York; he was a constant «circuit rider» preacher to colleges and universities; he was kept busy most of his life with political activities; he made himself available to all kinds of people; and he was a prolific writer.

The tall, balding Niebuhr resigned his Detroit pastorate in 1928 and joined the faculty of Union to start full - time teaching.

Henry Sloane Coffin (later president of Union Seminary in New York City), who was in the audience and became acquainted with Niebuhr, in time offered Niebuhr a teaching post at Union in the field of Applied Christianity.

Before getting to the serious work of teaching, Bonhoeffer came to America for a year of study at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Indeed, on reaching the summit of union with God in this life, St John of the Cross teaches, all one's initial impulses emerge in accordance with the will of God.13

A Member of Parliament — or a magistrate, or the Head Teacher of a school, or a borough councillor - who dared to say «Children should be taught that marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman, bringing new children into the world» would in all probability be denounced with vigour and forced to resign.

Michael Reeves oversees the work of Union School of Theology and teaches in the areas of systematic and historical theology and also on preaching and spiritual formation.

PAK: I have to admit it is quite frustrating when people reduce Catholic Social Teaching to economics: labor - capital relations, workers» unions, minimum wage laws, the problems of socialism and libertarianism, that sort of thing.

and Political Expectations Roy J. Enquist, now on leave from Texas Lutheran College to teach at a seminary in South Africa, assisted me with the translation, and the volume will carry an introduction by John M. Stumme of St. Olaf College, who made an intensive study of this book and its milieu as part of his doctoral studies at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and at the Free University of Berlin.

I gladly record my debt to Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr. and Anton Boisen, whose course, «Experience and Theology,» in The Chicago Theological Seminary opened up the relation of theology to psychology for me; to Seward Hiltner, Granger Westberg, and my present colleague, Earl Loomis, with each of whom I have taught courses on the relation of psychiatry and theology; and to William Oglesby of Union Seminary, Richmond, not only for his encouragement in the project I was undertaking, but for helpful criticism of the lectures.

Biblical teaching on marriage shows us that the union of a man and woman is the icon of the union of Christ and his church.

The Catholic World Report asked Cardinal Burke how important he thought it was that Pope Francis should «make a statement soon in order to address the growing sense — among many in the media and in the pews — that the Church is on the cusp of changing her teaching on various essential points regarding marriage, «remarriage», reception of Communion, and even the place of «unions» among homosexuals».

As Sacrosanctum Concilium teaches: «By offering the Immaculate Victim, not only through the hands of the priest, but also with him, they [the faithful] should learn also to offer themselves; through Christ the Mediator, they should be drawn day by day into ever more perfect union with God and with each other, so that finally God may be all in all» (SC 48).

In that conversation, voices have been heard urging a view of conscience that is curious, even dangerous: Under certain circumstances, conscience may permit or even require that a person choose acts that the Church has consistently taught are intrinsically wrong — such as using artificial means of contraception, or receiving Holy Communion while living the married life in a union that's not been blessed by the Church.

I do not understand why Protestant theologians [including Barth] are so afraid of the New Testament position when the New Testament teaches only, this much about the «interim condition»: (1) that it exists, (2) that it already signifies union with Christ [this because of the Holy Spirit]-RRB-.

Roger Shinn, who taught ethics for many years at Union Theological Seminary in New York, offers a clearly written essay, «Between Eden and Babel,» in which he explores in brief compass many of the moral issues involved as well as some of the first ethical discussions of cloning more than thirty years ago after tadpoles had been cloned.

A recent story in the L.A. Times about the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops devoted to the pastoral care of families, offered this provocative view: «Vatican to Debate Teachings on Divorce, Birth Control, Gay Unions.»