Worrying new figures have revealed that more than 80 per cent of school leaders have been abused by parents in the last year. The poll of 1,600 members of the National Association of Headteachers said 10 per cent had been the victims of assault. Many are considering leaving the profession and others have developed mental…
Teachers should stop being so negative about their jobs, warned Sir Martyn Oliver, the new head of Ofsted. In a speech to the headteachers’ union NAHT he urged that they talk more about the positives of the profession. He added: “I’m not diminishing the very real issues in schools. But I do worry that, if…
There was some surprise and disgust when a school teacher was pictured in a classroom holding a sign saying: “The only good Tory is a dead Tory” and “The only good Lib Dem is a Dead Lib Dem”. Lucy Preston is grinning while holding the sign, and is described as a ’figurehead’ of the National…
When I first started teaching in 1986 the country was in the middle of continual strike action, but I was not in a militant union. At the time, unemployment was high and I was glad and grateful to have a good job. My sense of public service and caring for the children in my charge…