Education and schools work update
Headlines from the world of education and schools work:
Sex education is a mess, so can a TV series help teenagers?: The Sex Education Show is important and useful but young people need compulsory school lessons.
Gove sets limit on headteacher pay: Headteachers are facing a limit on their salaries to the £142,500-a-year pay of the Prime Minister. Education Secretary Michael Gove wants to impose the cap on all salary deals agreed from September.
Every school needs a ‘naff’ teacher says Ofsted chair: Every school should have a “useless teacher” so children can learn to deal with incompetent people in authority, the outgoing chairman of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) has claimed.
Council tells schools to rearrange exams and cancel swimming for Ramadan: A council has encouraged schools to rearrange exams, cancel swimming lessons and stop sex education during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Parents told packed lunches ‘too unhealthy’: Packed lunches filled with junk food by parents should be banned, the government body in charge of healthy eating has said.
School children disprove theory than spiders are scared of conkers: A group of primary school children have been honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry for disproving the theory that spiders are afraid of conkers.
Up to a quarter of a million could miss out on university places: Almost a quarter of a million students will miss out on a university place after economy worries prompt a sharp rise in applications.
