We all know that the government has been driving advertisement campaigns to encourage more people to take up teaching as a profession and now it appears that it has paid off. This year has been the first year in which the number of people joining teacher training courses has exceeded the government’s targets.
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Children in Need celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, and managed to raise even more money than last year on the night. This is a real achievement, especially as we are currently in a recession, proving that the British Public really do rise to the challenge and continue to give generously to worthy causes.
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Teachers have a hard time lately. They have more targets to hit than ever before and are having to cope with an increase in the number of unruly children in the classroom, but the government are set to make things even tougher. From 2010 every newly qualified teacher will be given a license to teach. [...]

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In these days of equality it seems that faith schools are lagging behind. This criticism comes from the National Secular Society who are arguing that current government legislation discriminates against well qualified capable teachers who are non religious.
They state that teachers who are not religious are refused jobs or promotions over those teachers that a [...]

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Bullying has always been a problem in schools, but now children are suffering from it out of school hours in the form of cyberbullying. Cyberbullies use the internet or mobile phones to bully other children, and with the rise of social sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace the problem is only getting worse.
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Every child deserves to get a good education, and every parent wants their child to go to a good school. The problem is that there doesn’t appear to be enough god schools to go around. With this problem, the best schools are finding that an increasing number of parents are lying to win their child [...]

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