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Teaching Today April


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Main Feature

Protecting your pension: The campaign contines 18


Teaching Today online

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You can read the magazine just like the paper version, using the digital page turner and zoom function. You can jump straight to a specific page, make notes, bookmark particular pages and go straight to more detailed resources.

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Features

OECD: PISA data contradicts Coalition Government’s distorted portrayal of educational performance...14
MAY ELECTION: Vote for Education....................................................................16
CITIZENS UK: Community organisers are building powerful institutions for the common good............27
EDUCATION BILL: In brief ...........................................................................28
HOLE IN THE HEAD: It’s another curriculum review....................................................30


Puzzles

Win £100 general knowledge crossword .....................................34
Sudoku puzzles ...........................................................34


News

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women .................................04
Employment tribunal review must not favour business lobby over employees’ rights.................05
Philip Lawrence Awards celebrates young people ..................................................07
Coalition Government’s commitment to equality called into question...............................10
Submission evidence calls for low pay uplift and questions ‘crude’ benchmark for headteachers ...13
Schools White Paper threatens national pay and conditions framework .............................15
Induction rule a problem for growing number of teachers unable to find permanent posts ..........31
Prescriptive rules for teaching reading undermine professional judgement and expertise ..........32
Mentors needed for refugee teachers..............................................................33


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