Education and schools work

Schools work and education headlines:

• One in seven teachers are victims of cyber bullying by pupils: One in seven teachers have been victims of “cyber bullying” by pupils according to new figures.
• Slumdog professor: The academic whose work inspired the Oscar-winning film has a new project in the UK
• Books disappearing from schools says Michael Rosen: Schools are “tearing up” books to teach children about literature using basic worksheets according to a leading author.
• Traditional apple crumble ‘the nation’s favourite school pudding’: Traditional apple crumble and custard is the nation’s favourite school canteen pudding according to research.
• Teachers’ careers ‘blighted’ by false allegations: Hundreds of teachers are facing false allegations of abusing children every year union leaders said.
• Top grammar school will abandon GCSEs: A leading private school is to drop GCSEs because the courses are not challenging enough. Manchester Grammar School will switch to the International GCSE (IGCSE) from September.
• Faith leaders defend selection in religious schools: Banning selection of pupils by faith in religious schools would be “perverse and unjust”, a group of religious organisations that run state faith schools argue.
• Teenage pupils ‘deserve 11am lie-in’: Adolescents benefit from a later start to the day, claims Oxford professor after tests on memory.  A pioneering headteacher is calling for all secondary schools to follow his lead and start classes at 11am, allowing teenagers two hours extra in bed.
• Sats creating ‘impoverished’ curriculum say advisors: Sats for 11yearolds should be scrapped amid fears they leave the curriculum “impoverished” according to the Government’s mathematics advisors.
• Sex education for five years olds to prevent more ‘Alfie Pattens’: Plans to give sex education lessons to children as young as five have been brought forward following the case of schoolboy dad Alfie Patten.
• Deborah Drapper: Follow the Bible not the Beckhams: The key to rearing a good child is Christianity.
• Teaching assistant seduced schoolgirls on Facebook and Bebo: A teaching assistant used internet social networking sites to seduce teenage pupils at the school where he worked a court heard.
• Bright schoolchildren take back seat to ‘social misfits’ says head teacher: State schools being forced to prioritise “social misfits” at the expense of the majority of pupils says head teacher.