Sentences with phrase «teachers over the parliament»

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Commenting on the reports in the media that the Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, is to apologise to Parliament for errors contained in the Government's list of schools to be rebuilt or refurbished under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The Government's decision to scrap over 700 projects to rebuild or refurbish schools was an unnecessary and disastrous development that history will judge to be bad for children, bad for education and bad for local communities and the economy.

Former teacher Adam Walker takes over after party's vote collapses and Griffin loses only seat in European parliament

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

We believe that an additional investment of # 20 million over the next Parliament is the absolute minimum needed to help teachers get the training they need for the new subject.

A further 2,500 teachers will be recruited over the course of the next Parliament on top of existing plans.

Specifically for non specialist teachers and cover supervisors: 3 lessons on parliament built around the text book offering with starters, plenaries, video clips, discussion points and homework (Citizenship Education for Key Stage 3 By Terry Fiehn and Julia Fiehn) The lessons are very and full so could easily work for 3 sessions on a focus day or by allowing extened discussions the activities could be spread over a half term.

There you are, trying desperately to stop Miranda in year 8 from bashing Julia over the head for the umpteenth time as Mrs X announces she's resigning five minutes before the end - of - term deadline leaving you with cover teachers from now until Christmas, while these guys think they're improving the country by sitting in parliament chatting about nothing and scoring points.

The application comes at a critical time for both teacher recruitment and apprenticeship creation, with education ministers under pressure to boost the number of trainees entering the profession and meet a pledge made by the prime minister during the general election campaign to generate three million apprenticeship starts over the course of this parliament.

«That is why we are spending more than # 1.3 bn over this Parliament to help attract the brightest and best into the profession, including offering generous tax - free bursaries and scholarships in key subjects and through our teacher recruitment campaign: Your Future: Their Future.»

Over a thousand parents, teachers, school support staff and head teachers will be bringing the message to MPs that schools are seriously underfunded and will ask them to join us in demanding that the Chancellor release more funds for our schools, at today's School Cuts mass lobby of Parliament.

But Gerard Liston, an enterprise and employability consultant, told Schools Week he had «real concerns» about a «lack of progress and lack of sustainability» at the CEC, and said its funding — # 70 million over this parliament — would be better spent on training teachers to deliver guidance in classrooms.