News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
Former Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis has said he is unable to get a job – or an interview – in teaching because his political views are held in "disdain" by the Left-wing profession.
Sallust underscores the profound impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on parenting skills, evident in schools like Telford's Lantern Academy, where basic communication and potty training have become necessary.
A courageous teacher, sacked for refusing to comply with a young girl's desire to identify as a boy, is set to voice concerns for her welfare at an employment tribunal.
A former headteacher in London sacked for admonishing her own child for trying to grab hand sanitiser (having previously managed to get it in his eye) has just won an unfair dismissal case.
The fact that the Government has had to tell teachers to ban children from using mobile phones in schools is just a glimpse of what is wrong with the education system, says former Headteacher Mike Fairclough.
New Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver recently admitted that Ofsted itself is one of the key problems facing teachers today. Too right, says ex-teacher Steven Tucker: what it calls 'good' is often nothing of the sort.
A primary school teacher sacked for refusing to take Covid tests and wear a face mask during the pandemic has lost her discrimination legal battle.
The terror attack which killed teacher Dominique Bernard last Friday occurred nearly three years after the very similar attack on Samuel Paty. But less well known is that a third such attack occurred last year.
Mohammed Mogouchkov, who killed one person in a knife attack at a school in France on Friday, was apparently looking for a history teacher. Had the teacher expressed views on the Middle East he didn't agree with?
A Christian teacher has been banned from the profession for 'misgendering' a pupil in a case believed to be the first of its kind in the U.K.
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