Sentences with phrase «with teaching unions»

Mr Gove was removed as education secretary last year after repeated run - ins with the teaching unions and a reported spat with Home Secretary Theresa May - someone he will now have to work closely with once again.

Plaid Cymru education spokesman Simon Thomas said the government should work with teaching unions.

«We are always willing to engage in discussion with teaching unions to ensure that this transition year goes smoothly.»

But the new system has caused widespread confusion among teachers, parents and employers, with teaching unions claiming the majority remain unclear on what these new grades mean in practice.

Paying teachers according to how well they perform is set to put Education Secretary, Michael Gove, on a collision course with teaching unions, who claim the government is tearing up national pay structures.

One reason may be her positive relationships with the teaching unions, whose leaders regularly praise her methodical nature.

«We will explore the survey's findings and ways to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy with the teaching unions as part of our ongoing programme of talks.»

This is an argument that draws wide support from educational bodies and providers, as REC Education regularly meets with teaching unions, government departments and local authorities, creating consensus that teacher absence should not lead to a poorer standard of teaching.

Hinds also announced a strategy to drive recruitment and boost retention of teachers, working with teaching unions and professional bodies.

His recent public spats with teaching unions and Ofsted appear to have damaged the education secretary with 57 % per cent of all voters now say he is doing a bad job with just 21 % saying he is doing well.

As education secretary, Michael Gove had a famously turbulent relationship with the teaching unions...

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Hinduism, for example, religious teaching idealizes the sannyasin, one who eventually forsakes home and hearth, and through this detachment reaches out for more intense union with the divine mystery.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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-.

Thus the beatitudes teach us the meaning of discipleship, a meaning that can never be understood in purely theoretical terms but rather in the joy and suffering of living life in union with God, the constant lived reality of dying in order to rise again.

More significantly, in terms of the Magisterium of the Church, the bull Unigenitus Dei Filius of Pope Clement VI (1343) teaches that, «he did not merely shed a drop of his blood - although this would have sufficed for the redemption of the whole human race because of the union with the Word - but a copious flood» (ND 643; DS 1025).

Church law declared homosexuality incompatible with Christian teaching and forbade ordination and unions for homosexuals.

God established a relationship with the Abram to set the stage for teaching the world about who he GOD is... This relationship is described as a physical union between a man and a woman.

As well as sharing in God's work of creating people, husbands and wives also have a share in God's work of bringing them to salvation, bringing them into union with Christ in the Church by getting them baptised, bringing them to be fed by Christ in the Eucharist and to be cared for by him in the other sacraments; bringing them to know and love God through teaching, prayer, bible reading and example.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Contrast this with the genuine church teaching of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation of the conjugal union, as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment of the act itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion of mutual affection, sanctified by the sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind of reduction described by the Pope.

Because God's grace is at work in marriage, Jesus teaches us that our marital unions are capable of lifelong fidelity, signified by the prophet's use of marriage as an image of God's enduring covenant with Israel: «I have loved you with an everlasting love» (Jer.

With 100 - plus proposals on what the United Methodist Church (UMC) should do about human sexuality — from deleting its Book of Discipline's stance that homosexuality is «incompatible with Christian teaching» to allowing local churches to choose whether or not to approve same - sex unions and non-celibate gay clergy — organizers of the denomination's quadrennial conference tried to develop a special process to address the isWith 100 - plus proposals on what the United Methodist Church (UMC) should do about human sexuality — from deleting its Book of Discipline's stance that homosexuality is «incompatible with Christian teaching» to allowing local churches to choose whether or not to approve same - sex unions and non-celibate gay clergy — organizers of the denomination's quadrennial conference tried to develop a special process to address the iswith Christian teaching» to allowing local churches to choose whether or not to approve same - sex unions and non-celibate gay clergy — organizers of the denomination's quadrennial conference tried to develop a special process to address the issue.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Last week, whilst teaching a course at Colorado College, I wrote a piece for The Economist about a bill to allow civil unions in the state, which was combined with reporting on Obama's announcement in support of gay marriage and that passage of North Carolina's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

A former top aide to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Damien LaVera, has taken a new gig with the powerful state teaches union, NYSUT, as its communications director.

Commenting on the statement on licensing teachers by Tristram Hunt, Shadow Education Secretary, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «When this proposal was made by the last Government in 2010, it was in the context of a national framework of pay and conditions of service which recognised and rewarded teachers as highly skilled professionals and which provided them with rights and entitlements to working conditions which supported them in focusing on teaching and learning.

Topics included Kerik and how Dietl reconciles his criticism of Mayor de Blasio's «corruption», Kerik's comment that children should be specifically taught how to safely interact with police, the continuing possibility of Dietl running in the Republican primary and possible union support, the «raise the age» initiative and mayoral control of schools.

The largest teaching union, the NUT, has joined forces with the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) which represents 28,500 school leaders, to launch a petition calling for greater consultation on the new English Baccalaureate Certificate (EBC).

Commenting on the launch of a consultation by the Secretary of State for Education on professional development for teachers and calling for expressions of interest in a College of Teaching, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «This Government can establish whatever framework it likes for professional development but unless teachers are given a contractual entitlement to access such development, the current system of inequality and ad hoc arrangements will continue, with access being on the basis of grace and favour and the whims and preferences of individual employers.

Ofsted has been frequently cited by teaching unions as creating a «culture of fear» within schools, with many in the profession branding it «not fit for purpose».

Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Schools are communities that work together each and every day to teach the next generation to think carefully and critically about discrimination and to empathise with other human beings.&rUnion of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Schools are communities that work together each and every day to teach the next generation to think carefully and critically about discrimination and to empathise with other human beings.&runion, said: «Schools are communities that work together each and every day to teach the next generation to think carefully and critically about discrimination and to empathise with other human beings.»

Michael Gove, in an interview with The Independent to coincide with the start of the teacher union conference season, makes it clear that the priorities of a new Conservative government would be to restore respect for teaching.»