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Category: 'teachers'

Useful content surrounding the education sector

09 FEB 2021

'Longer school days’ to help children catch up

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: teachers

The school day could be made longer to help children catch up on missed learning, reports suggest. Government ministers are discussing the possibility of extending the school day so that children who have missed out on vital teaching during lockdown have more time in the classroom.

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10 DEC 2020

Schools can close a day early for Christmas

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: teachers

Schools will be allowed to shut a day early so staff have a “proper break” from identifying potential coronavirus cases ahead of Christmas.

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15 OCT 2020

Teachers recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: teachers

Teachers and education leaders all over the country have been recognised for their work during the coronavirus pandemic in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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20 JUN 2019

Teachers in England work longest hours in Europe, global survey reveals

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: teachers

A new international survey has revealed that teachers in England work more hours than anywhere else in Europe. The survey of teachers and school leaders in 48 countries conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revealed that secondary teachers in England worked 46.9 hours a week on average, the fourth-highest workload of the 48 countries polled.

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25 FEB 2019

Teachers experience more stress than other professions, study shows

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: teachers

https://www.aplhealth.com/A new report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) looking at the issues facing the teacher workforce in England shows that job-related stress is higher among teachers than other professionals.

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05 JUN 2018

Teachers ‘spend a million hours a year’ teaching primary pupils toilet hygiene

  • By: nick.b
  • Category: teachers

Primary school teachers lose more than a million hours of lesson time each year toilet-training children and teaching them basic hygiene, according to new research.

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09 February, 2021
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26 January, 2021
Schools can close a day early for Christmas
10 December, 2020
GCSE and A-levels in Wales cancelled next summer
12 November, 2020
Teachers recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
15 October, 2020

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GCSE and A-levels in Wales cancelled next summer
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