In Scotland over the past year there has been a drop in the number of teachers. The figure has dropped by 1348, and Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop has blamed the councils for spending money, set aside for teachers on other areas. The councils reply was to state that maintaining the number of teachers in schools [...]

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Under the government’s current plans, in 2011 schools are set to teach pupils about domestic violence. The message will be that domestic violence against women and girls is unacceptable.
It seems to me that this is yet another step towards schools taking over the role of the parent. Schools should be a place for academic [...]

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Some parents who take their children to school in the car are continually causing congestion problems around school entrances. While some park in school car parks reserved for teachers, others are parking in the keep clear areas, which is a danger to other pupils.
One School in Northumberland which is fed up with parents not obeying [...]

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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.
This may be [...]

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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.
Children love [...]

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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.
One of [...]

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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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