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• Support positive masculinity in England and Wales schools, union conference told

  05-04-2024 19:05
  
  Boys and young men need guidance – not punishment – to avoid ‘manosphere’, teacher tells NEUTeachers should promote positive masculinity in schools in England and Wales in order to support boys who might otherwise feel demonised and end up turning to “the manosphere” for hope, a union conference has been told.Charlotte Keogh, a secondary school English teacher from Worcestershire, said boys and young men needed support and guidance as they grappled with ideas
  
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• Emergency funding saves Scotland’s Gaelic programme from cuts

  05-04-2024 17:46
  
  Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s language protection scheme holds on to 27 workers thanks to financial lifelineScottish ministers have given emergency funding to save a network of Gaelic community workers who faced being laid off because of government cuts.Gaelic activists, MSPs and community leaders were dismayed after it emerged last month that Bòrd na Gàidhlig (BnG), the body charged with protecting Gaelic, was removing 27 development worker posts across the country. Conti
  
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• Rise in school sexism down to phones, says union

  05-04-2024 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Teachers fear sexism is on the rise in schools because of harmful content on children's phones.
  
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• Be hopeful on bad days, Ruth Perry told pupils

  05-04-2024 15:25 via bbc.com
  
  The head teacher, whose suicide was linked to an Ofsted visit, recorded a video message in lockdown.
  
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• Sister of Ruth Perry urges teachers thinking of suicide to seek help

  05-04-2024 13:57
  
  Prof Julia Waters gives emotional speech at NEU conference and shares video of her late sister addressing pupilsThe sister of Ruth Perry, the headteacher who killed herself after an Ofsted inspection downgraded her school, has appealed to any teachers or school leaders considering suicide to think again, describing it as “a terrible, wrong-headed option”.In an emotional address to delegates attending the annual conference of the National Education Union in Bournemouth on Friday, Prof
  
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• Jamaica needs teachers, yet England poaches them and classrooms lie empty. How can that be right? | Gus John

  05-04-2024 12:00
  
  People want good lives for themselves, but the UK has taken so much from the Caribbean. Better to help the islands thriveGus John is an academic and an equality and human rights campaignerDoes it matter if we in England are recruiting teachers so heavily in Jamaica that classrooms there don’t have enough of them? Ask those who run school systems in the Caribbean that desperately need their brightest and best. People will always want to be mobile. The issues are in what numbers, and why and
  
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• ‘Teenagers are exhausting’: Teacher and author Carol Atherton on why her profession deserves more respect

  05-04-2024 11:00
  
  The Head of English at a Lincolnshire secondary school discusses the crisis in education and her mission to make literature live for a new generationCarol Atherton is shattered. Her classroom may have emptied for the day, but the final push before A-levels and GCSE exams has sent her into “marking overdrive”. Head of English at a secondary school in Lincolnshire, she has been teaching for almost 30 years and has covered largely the same set texts her entire career, but her enthu
  
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• Head teachers locked SEND pupils in rooms - report

  05-04-2024 07:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Odran Doran and Simon Black are banned from teaching as allegations against them are proven.
  
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• Teachers’ union leader calls for inquiry into misogyny among young men in UK

  05-04-2024 06:00
  
  Daniel Kebede accuses government of failing to tackle issue of sexism and its spread online among childrenThe leader of the UK’s largest education union has called for an independent inquiry into the rise of sexism and misogyny among boys and young men, saying it should not be left to parents and schools to police.Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said it was “a huge issue” in schools and expressed particular concern about the ease with
  
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