ISC Daily News Summary

ISC schools are now able to add their job vacancies to the ISC website. To upload your job vacancies free of charge, log in to our Member Zone. If you have yet to register for the Member Zone, you can sign up here and complete the questions under the title 'New User'. You will then be e-mailed your login details. There is no limit as to how many members of staff from your school can register for the Member Zone. If you have already registered but have forgotten your password, click here.

 

Once logged in, click on 'Job Administration' in the left navigation and start adding your vacancies. Once a reasonable number of jobs have been uploaded, the Job Zone search facility will go live, which will enable all job hunters to search through all ISC school vacancies. We estimate that this will be in approximately two weeks, depending on how quickly schools add their vacancies, as we want to make sure there are a wide variety of jobs to be found before making the search available. We will let Daily News Summary readers know as soon as the job search facility goes live.

 

If you haven't done so yet, why not also add your school's open days through the Member Zone at the same time? Your open days will then appear on our Open Day Search and on your school's profile page.

Independent, Daily Telegraph

Government data uncovered by the Conservative Party shows that one in seven pupils on the Gifted and Talented scheme do not achieve the government benchmark of five A* to C GCSE grades, including maths and English.

Scheme for gifted pupils 'is a failure' (Independent)
One in seven bright school pupils 'do not achieve good grades' (Daily Telegraph)

Independent

Dame Jean Else - one of the first school 'superheads' to be ennobled under Labour - is to face charges of unacceptable professional conduct at a disciplinary hearing today. She was suspended from her school in 2004 over allegations of financial irregularities and sacked two years later.

'Superhead' ennobled by Labour could be struck off (Independent)

Daily Telegraph

Research into the attitudes of young people by the educational charity Edge indicates that many teenagers find school lessons boring and irrelevant, with many saying that the education system should be changed to suit their needs.

School is boring and irrelevant, say teenagers (Daily Telegraph)

Daily Telegraph

A book written by a former secondary school teacher in England - 'Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum' - suggests that traditional geography lessons have been sacrificed in favour of 'political causes' such as multiculturalism, human rights, global warming and sustainability.

Geography lessons 'sacrificed' in favour of trendy causes (Daily Telegraph)

BBC News Online, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Sun

The number of sex offenders banned from working with children in England has risen to almost 13,000, according to official figures. In a Commons written statement, Children's Secretary Ed Balls said future decisions on barring individuals from working with children and vulnerable adults would be taken by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) rather than by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

More offenders on child blacklist (BBC News Online)
Number of sex offenders barred from working with children triples in two years (Daily Telegraph)
Fifty child-sex offenders were cleared to work with children, new probe reveals (Daily Mail)
Schools ban 5,000 in one year (Sun)

Daily Telegraph

Following the announcement that the government is to launch a review of home education in England, a mother speaks out in defence of her decision to educate her six children at home.

Are home-schooled children more vulnerable? (Daily Telegraph)

Times

Children are spending twice as much time in front of a TV or computer screen as in the classroom, according to a new book - 'Consumer Kids' - on how big business targets young consumers aggressively though new media.

Children spending half as much time in class as they do looking at screens (Times)

BBC News Online

Conservative MP Cheryl Gillan is seeking to pass a law to improve the way local authorities provide support for people with autism.

MP's plan to boost autism support (BBC News Online)

Daily Telegraph

A review of PE lessons across Europe, Australia, South America and North America has found that they have little effect on children's weight. Instead, the study found that how children eat and play at home is more important than school sports lessons. The Daily Telegraph also reports that a state school in Stoke-on-Trent is 'attempting to improve exam results by bribing pupils with takeaways.'

Home diet and play 'more important than PE in helping children lose weight' (Daily Telegraph)
School 'bribing' pupils with junk food take-aways (Daily Telegraph)

Times2

Figures in the public eye discuss their memories of university, in a feature on how 'Oxbridge is not the only route to success'.

Cambridge is one of the best, but remember the rest (Times2)

Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail

School music teachers have been advised by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to wear earplugs or stand behind noise screens in an attempt to protect their hearing.

Music teachers should wear earplugs or stand behind noise screens (Daily Telegraph)
Music teachers are ordered to wear earmuffs by health and safety watchdog (Daily Mail)