ISC Daily News Summary

Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Sun, Daily Mirror, BBC News Online

Coverage of the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) continues with articles on the union's campaign against military recruitment in schools. NUT's General Secretary, Steve Sinnott, has claimed that banter on TV quiz shows such as 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' has a bad influence on children and is fuelling bullying in schools.  

Boycott threat over military recruitment (Guardian)
Quiz shows blamed for pupils' offensive language (Guardian)
The NUT has cried wolf too often, but this time it's right (Guardian)
Stop army recruitment 'propaganda' in schools, say teachers (Daily Telegraph)
TV quiz shows 'fuel bullying' (Daily Telegraph)
Teachers condemn MoD recruitment drives (Times)
Teachers' war on Army (Daily Mail)
NUT propaganda (Daily Mail)
Teachers to ban armed forces from classrooms (Daily Express)
Sirs: 'Kick army out of schools' (Sun)
Teachers declare war on military recruitment in schools (Daily Mirror)
Teachers reject 'Army propaganda' (BBC News Online)

Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Times, Financial Times, Daily Mail, Sun, BBC News Online

Children's Secretary Ed Balls will today speak at the annual conference of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) on the subject of cyberbullying against teachers. There are also a number of articles on threatened strike action from NASUWT against the government's pledge to turn more schools into academies. The union has called for mobile phones to be banned from the classroom with Tim Cox - a member of the union's executive - citing 'constant low-level disruption' such as humming and 'orchestrated coughing' as the biggest nuisance for teachers.

Teachers may strike to derail new academies (Guardian)
Teachers threaten strike in protest at academies (Independent)
Strike threat over academies (Daily Telegraph)
Teachers are rattled by hums in class (Daily Telegraph)
School staff 'ground down' by dissent (Times)
Balls to back bullied teachers (Financial Times)
Call for classroom mobile ban (Daily Mail)
Teachers: we fail (Sun)
Cyber bully pledge for teachers (BBC News Online)
Academies 'juggernaut' warning (BBC News Online)

Independent

Independent columnist Deborah Orr analyses many of the issues arising from the NUT, NASUWT and Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) annual conferences.

You can't blame teachers for quitting when entire families are hostile to education (Independent)

Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, BBC News Online

Universities Secretary John Denham has admitted that prisoners have been paid student grants and loans totalling £730,000 while taking university courses in jail - almost three times the amount that was originally told to MPs. The Daily Telegraph reports that teenagers from middle-class families are being put off university because of soaring student debt, according to a survey published yesterday (survey source not given).

Prisoners were paid £730,000 in university grants loophole (Times)
£730,000 in student aid for prisoners (Daily Telegraph)
Student debt rises (Daily Telegraph not online)
Prisoners on student loan scam pocketed £730,000 - DOUBLE the Government's estimate (Daily Mail)
Student prisoners 'had £730,000' (BBC News Online)

Two struggling state schools in Scotland have received outstanding inspection reports.

School facing closure gets top rating (Herald)
Outstanding report for primary in one of country's most deprived areas (Herald)

Obituary dedicated to Michael Brannan, who taught Russian at George Heriot's School in the 1970s and 80s.

Michael Brannan (Scotsman)

Yesterday's Education Guardian included articles on Kenneth Baker, prefabricated schools and an extensive DCSF advertising feature on Diplomas.

Newly appointed 'etiquette police' in Japan have been tasked to ask commuters to turn down their headphones and give up their seats for their 'elders and betters' amid growing concern that etiquette is losing its hallowed place in Japanese society.

'Manners police' hit Japan metros (BBC News Online)