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Issue 15.4
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Giving up on equality
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- Professor Ken Jones, a fierce critic of the Government’s policy drift on education, is more than ready to admit that analysing the problems and adverse consequences of the new Education Bill is much easier than proposing alternatives. It is for this reason that most of the Labour rebels will finally vote for the Bill: there is no clear vision of an alternative, just a deep sense of unease.
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- 01/01/1970
You are what you eat
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- A body of evidence linking the impact of diet on mood and behaviour has been growing for many years. Now new scientific evidence from the Mental Health Foundation and Sustain reveals that food can have an immediate and lasting effect upon children’s mental health and behaviour because of the way it affects the structure and function of the brain.
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- 01/01/1970
The boy can't help it
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- New research highlighted IN Newsweek magazine recently points TO brain chemistry AS the reason why boys ARE failing AT school, AND the solution TO restoring parity BETWEEN the sexes could lie IN the revival OF an old idea: separating the girls FROM the boys.
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- 01/01/1970
Without a prayer
- Description:
- Many secondary schools across England are failing to hold the legally required ‘collec tive act of worship’ each day and only require pupils to attend assemblies once a week.
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- 01/01/1970
The truth behind List 99
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- Recent media hysteria over sex offenders working in schools has only confused the public about how checks are carried out. Jim Sweetman unpicks the facts – and ponders what happens next
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- 01/01/1970
Choice, diversity and social justice
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- Professor Ken Jones writes exclusively for MST on the European contexts surrounding current reforms to education in England – and warns of possible adverse consequences for society as a whole
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- 01/01/1970
Constructing head teachers
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- With no end in sight to the shortage of primary head teachers, Tony Hayes looks at the reasons why deputies may choose or choose not to move on to the top job
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- 01/01/1970
Lessons from leadership learning
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- NPQH trainer Adrian Raynor wraps up his series on the headship qualification by looking at some crucial issues the course has thrown up so far
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- 01/01/1970
Home comforts
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- Now that teachers have their PPA entitlement, writes John Berry, schools and staff alike could benefit if they are allowed to spend time working from home
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- 01/01/1970
Switching on to CPD
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- With the changing role of teachers, continuous professional development has never been more important – and Martyn Goodhand believes CPD works better online
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- 01/01/1970
Better workforce, better results
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- Staff reform can mean improved outcomes, but only if school managers plan carefully. Brian Fidler and Tessa Atton introduce a major new series for MST on workforce remodelling. This is the first of four articles studying workforce remodelling and teaching and learning responsibilities (TLRs).
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- 01/01/1970
Room for improvement
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- Many head teachers are busy completing their first Ofsted self–evaluation form – but how much thought is given to the question “what is your capacity to improve”
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- 01/01/1970
Practice makes prefects
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- The days of naming prefects and leaving them to it are over, says Chris Cordery, now that training courses can show pupils how to get the most from the role
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- 01/01/1970
Pool your resources
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- A better and broader 14–19 curriculum will depend on the willingness of learning providers to work more closely together, believes Melanie Hunt
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- 01/01/1970
Culture, discipline, and the rules
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- In the first part of a new series, behaviour management experts Geoff Moss and John Bayley examine different types of school discipline policy and culture
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- 01/01/1970
Backstop
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- Backstop looks at some of the more innovative education technology on offer at this year’s BOTT Show
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- 01/01/1970
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