Trainee teachers: a spot of poaching? Relations between the government and university-based teacher educators have reached a new low amid claims that a Department for Education agency has been attempting to lure would-be students away from the traditional higher education…

Inset days that actually lead to better outcomes for the students are rarer than hens’ teeth At the beginning of this term we had an inset day. I had hoped it would be a day when we all sat together…

Researchers have suggested red is linked with warning, prohibition, caution, anger, embarrassment and being wrong’ Teachers have been told not to use red link to mark homework to avoid upsetting pupils. The edict has been condemned as ‘absolutely political correctness…

State schools are shut in Denmark for a second day because of a dispute between teachers and local authorities over working conditions. About 90,000 teachers were locked out after negotiations broke down and nearly 900,000 pupils have no classes. A…

NUT wants teachers’ classroom hours capped at 20 a week amid claims many hardly see their own children and work late Teachers have called for the time they spend teaching pupils to be capped at 20 hours a week –…

Critics of coalition policies seize on survey in which majority of teachers said unqualified colleagues were taking lessons Chris Keates, the NASUWT general secretary, said the increasing use of unqualified teachers was ‘part of the wider strategy to depress costs…

Pupils in England could be taught in bigger classes and by unqualified staff from next September, as a rising population puts pressure on school capacity, Labour has said. Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg said an extra 15,000 teachers would be…

Ethnic minority students are less likely to get places at top universities than white pupils with the same A-level grades, according to research from Durham University. Researchers looked at application data from 49,000 students from 1996 to 2006. The study…

Teachers in England and Wales are calling on the government to reconsider plans to link pay to their performance. Performance-related pay (PRP) will have a “catastrophic effect” on teacher recruitment and retention, says Mary Bousted, head of the Association of…

Washington — When it comes to judging teacher effectiveness, value-added models—statistical models that a number of states and districts have adopted to rate teachers based on student test scores—are too problematic to be of practical use and could unfairly hurt…