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…