Job applicants' appraisals opened up to heads
Heads will be allowed to view confidential HR records about teachers’ previous performance before appointing, as part of Government attempts to end the recycling of “incompetent” members of the pro
Crisis looms: teacher training slump worsens
English and Welsh schools are facing a teacher supply crisis after a major drop in the number of people hoping to enter the profession, universities have warned.
Teachers TV videos are back on TES Resources
TES Resources is the first company to make all 3,500 Teachers TV videos available to view online for free at www.tes.co.uk/teacherstv.<
Surplus to requirements
At the start of the year, Michael Gove was the guest on a Radio 5 Live phone-in, when a call came in from a parent wanting to take Mr Gove to task on what he called his “laughable” English Baccalau
Dealing with a challenging class
What do I mean by the ‘challenging class’? This is a group of pupils for whom your behaviour management strategies simply do not work.
Degree class counts for nothing, say teachers
Only 14 per cent of teachers and school and college leaders think that degree class indicates how good a teacher someone will be, a survey has found.
Teach First expands into primaries
Hundreds of primary teachers with only six weeks’ training will be injected into deprived areas from September following the expansion of the “mission-based” Teach First progra
Women teachers: a force to be reckoned with
One hundred years ago, the average teacher in Britain was female and white. Today the average teacher is … well, female and white.
Heads to hold nearly all the cards in post-GTC era
Some teachers do bad things - they break the law, abuse their positions of trust or simply fail to teach well enough.
QTS employment: How the 2008 cohort fared
Everyone knows that in recent years too many teachers have been trained.