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The article offers the author's views on various issues. He notes that there are rumours regarding the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton and that the General Teaching Council and the senior management team will consult the children before they make the day of their wedding a day-off. He cites the experience of Kibosh in his department building where he felt something horror. He also mentions the mistakes in schools' notices which annoy teachers more than poor grammar and spelling.

Discusses the initiative of the General Teaching Council's (GTC) Teacher Learning Academy for the professional development of teachers in Great Britain. Significance of the GTC initiative for the improvement of the quality of education in the country; Aims and intentions of the GTC initiative; Need to develop the work to the level needed for a masters degree.

The article offers news briefs related to education including the Local Government Association report which calls for a reform on the public sector operation, teacher Alison Harrison who was reprimanded by the General Teaching Council for England (GTC) for accessing sites which are related to her work, and the Play England and the British Toy and Hobby Association research which states that the child plays for an average of 37 minutes during school days.

The article reports on the selection of two school governors to serve as General Teaching Council (GTC) members to be responsible for teacher registration in Great Britain.

The article focuses on the report "Working Together Better" by the General Teaching Council (GTC) where it revealed that qualified teachers are not viewed as a priority in early years staff when it comes to training opportunities in Great Britain.

The article focuses on the General Teaching Councils (GTC) registration of temporary teachers from significant European state regulations 2009. It notes that the government wants to introduce regulations to ensure that the teachers to make provision for their register with GTC for England or Wales and to comply with European Union (EU) Directive 2005/36. They will also allow GTCs to evaluate whether or not a temporary teacher is suitable before they take a post.

The article presents the author's' opinion on the test that teachers in Great Britain must take every five years to display their teaching competency. She believes that this is just more paperwork administered by the country's General Teaching Council. She suggests that children are taught by real people, who have failings. A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of teaching students on the first day of school.

The article focuses on the ban of a male teacher who sent flirtatious messages to female Year 9 pupils in Great Britain. It states that teacher Michael Pye was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct after the text messages and later similar emails to his pupils. According to a General Teaching Council, Pye's behavior is incompatible with the expected standards of a registered teacher.

The article reports that campaigners gathered outside of the General Teaching Council for England's headquarters to protest against Adam Walker, a design technology teacher who is a member of the far-right British National Party. According to the article, Walker has been charged with unacceptable professional conduct for using a school laptop to post racist and anti-Muslim comments. Walker appeared at the council for a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

The article outlines the launch of Teaching in 2012 proposals by the General Teaching Council (GTC) in Great Britain. The move is aimed in driving up standards in teaching until 2012. The scheme sets out vision for the profession geared in eliminating teaching variations, meeting all learners individual needs, supporting interagency working and giving children greater influence over teaching practice.

The article reports on the plan of the British government to curb down the number of registration and regulatory bodies for children's workforce. Accordingly, the move aims to advance workforce integration within the agency wherein the General Teaching Council and General Social Care Council are perceived to be dissolved and replace by a single entity. 4Children chief executive Anne Longfield noted that the simplification and consolidation of workforce is necessary to become more professional.

The article focuses on the job stress of newly-qualified teachers (NQTs) in Great Britain. It discusses the results of a study conducted by the General Teaching Council (GTC) which found that NQTs leave teaching due to job stress and workload. The need to creative positive experiences for teachers is examined and an increase in parent-teacher cooperation is also explored.

This article reports on the decision by the British General Teaching Council (GTC) in April 2008 to ban nursery school headteacher Patricia Ann Baynes from teaching. The GTC made the decision after it found the head of Bordesley Green East Nursery School in Birmingham, England, guilty of force-feeding, assaulting and unfairly punishing children. Many employees and former staff gave evidence against Baynes.

The article discusses efforts of Great Britain's General Teaching Council (GTC) to gain the authority to suspend teachers from the professional register who have been accused of inappropriate behaviour. Comments from Great Britain's National Union of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) that such powers would constitute a presumption of guilt that is at odds with the European Convention on Human Rights are presented. INSET: When workload is so heavy it's illegal.

The article reports that teacher Michael Tilt, head of physical education at Sunbury Manor School in England, has been suspended for fifteen months as of May 2007. Tilt was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by Great Britain's General Teaching Council, based on the fact that he allowed students to purchase combat knives and ball-bearing guns and failed to report an incident in which a student required stitches while on a school trip to Spain in 2005.

The article reports news pertaining to British education as of April 2007, including the following. The General Teaching Council subjected supply teacher Angela Mason to a misconduct hearing due to her covert filming of students' bad behavior for a television documentary. Oxford University professor Ann Buchanan attributes boys' bad behavior to lack of school sports. Gordon Brown, who is responsible for the government budget, told Chorlton High students that he is not very good at mathematics.

The article reports on Paul Hanson, an art teacher at Siddal Moor Sports College in Lancashire, England, who admitted to unacceptable professional conduct during a General Teaching Council of England hearing in April 2007. Hanson blames stress from teaching a new vocational exam syllabus and an Office of Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspection, and lack of support for his addiction, for his ongoing methadone use.

The article reports on former British headteacher Alan Klee, who was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by the General Teaching Council for England in April 2007. Klee was head of Carterton Community College in Oxfordshire, England, until his resignation in October 2003. He allegedly was verbally aggressive toward teachers, disregarded rules for appointing staff, and prevented governors from performing their jobs.

The article present obituaries of notable British educators, including Cambridge University professor of education Jean Rudduck, and Margaret Morgan, former president of the National Union of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers and vice-chair of Great Britain's General Teaching Council.

In this article the author counsels British school teachers working during their first year in the school system, a probationary period under the U. K.'s General Teaching Council. She suggests that teachers assess their own skills, vision of the job, incentives and a plans for improvement. The goals she lays out for inexperienced teachers are adapted from rules governing organizational change.

The article explains that British teachers and other education workers will face an expanded background check beginning in 2008. England's General Teaching Council points to the great variety of adults involved in teaching and learning in its request for registration and regulation of workers in the field. The Criminal Records Bureau will increase its controls, as well, and will administer the government's records check on education workers.

This article describes a sexual harassment charge against a primary school teacher in England. Grenville Smith admitted to England's General Teaching council that he persistently made unwanted physical contact with a school secretary. Smith was not present at a hearing at which he was banned from teaching for two years. Smith suffers from myalgic encephalomyelitis and will be unable to teach in the future.

This article presents information about the suspension of teacher Jacqueline Greenhall from working in a leadership role. The General Teaching Council found that Greenhall had undermined her head teacher and was aggressive towards other teachers. The 20-year teacher was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and was suspended. She later resigned.

This article reports on the decision by the General Teaching Council (GTC) to allow Stephen Crawford to continue teaching even though he has been convicted of several drink-driving convictions. Crawford must stay off alcohol submit medical evidence to the GTC proving his abstinence. He must also inform schools of the GTC's ruling.

This article reports that Kevin Kearnes, a teacher in Bournemouth, England, was banned from teaching for two years by England's General Teaching Council. Kearnes was caught shoplifting on two occasions and failed to report it to his superiors. He also did not appear at the hearing that handed down his teaching ban.

The articles reports on the extra payment to be paid by teachers to the General Teaching Council as it struggles to cope with the increasing number of disciplinary cases in England. An estimated 1.6 million pounds a year will be paid by teachers. Teachers will be expected to use their own money to cover the rise of mandatory fees.

The article reports on the ruling by the General Teaching Council against Saint Thomas Aquinas RC high teacher Daniel McIlwain for an unacceptable professional conduct in Manchester, England. McIlwain was charged for opening an exam set prior to the schedule of the exam. On the contrary, McIlwain defended himself by pressing the blame on the exams officer stating that he had asked permission to open the exam papers.

Comments on issues related to education in Great Britain. Opportunity for interested individuals to enter in the teaching career; Move of the General Teaching Council to set up an Engage network to pair up early-career teachers with partners to support each other; Introduction of the government of its extended school and Children Act initiatives.

Reports that the General Teaching Council for England is threatening legal action over allegations by a teaching union that it may be misusing public money. Online questionnaire completed by members of the union about their perception of the organization; Response of the union to the legal threat.

Reports that Maxwell Amplett, a teacher at Trench Hall special school who admitted swearing at fellow teacher in school time and mocking colleagues at after-school meetings, has been cleared of unacceptable professional conduct. Other charges against Amplett; Result of the General Teaching Council hearing.

Reports that Glenda Henderson, formerly employed at Abbots Farm infant school in Rugby, England, was found guilty of serious professional incompetence by England's General Teaching Council. Career background of Henderson; Failure of Henderson to communicate what she wanted from her class; Complaints against Henderson by parents.

Reports that majority of parents want stricter controls on staff working in academies and would reject a place for their child if teachers were not registered with England's General Teaching Council (GTC). Increase in the number of teachers being allowed to work outside the GTC's remit; Early day motion signed by Members of the Parliament before the election to bring registration of academy teachers in line with other state schools.

Reports on the plea of guilty of teacher Irene Evans in having an affair with a former student, according to General Teaching Council (GTC) in Great Britain. Identification of unacceptable professionl conduct; Details on the decision of the GTC after admission of Evans; Presentation of the school administration's investigation.

Reports that John Anthony Cole, the first teacher to be banned by the General Teaching Council has lost his appeal to return to the classroom in Great Britain. Effect of the ban on his pension and relationships with family and friends; Claim of the Council that Cole attempted to subvert the threshold assessments of fellow teachers by sending e-mails to the assessors, Cambridge Education Associates; Resignation of Cole after his actions were found to have brought the school into disrepute.

Reports on the appearance of teacher Jacqueline Anne Birch before the General Teaching Council committee in Birmingham, England after failing to meet targets set during her time at North Chaderton school in Oldham.

Reports on the decision of the General Teaching Council to impose a guilty verdict against Carlo Cecchi for failure to send A-level coursework to an exam board in England.

Reports on the plan of the General Teaching Council (GTC) to draft in outsiders to sit on disciplinary panels to take the burden off council members in Great Britain. Accusation against the GTC for neglecting its core function by planning to delegate responsibility for discipline; Use of the GTC by some council members to pursue their own personal agendas.

Reports that John Stewart, a newly-qualified teacher who failed his induction year, has been given a second chance by the General Teaching Council in England. Basis of the council's decision; Performance of Stewart during his first term; Reasons for the failure of Stewart during his induction year.

Reports on the move of General Teaching Council (GTC) in calling for the abolition of performance league tables in Great Britain. Proposals to lobby the government to review assessment; Possibility of destructing the teaching and learning of students; Concern of Judy Moorhouse, GTC chairman, in taking members to work in a professional manner.

Reports on the issuance of a conditional registration order by Great Britain General Teaching Council to Heather Wheeler. Observation of the panel of the failure of Wheeler to teach to the required standards; Failure of the teacher to provide quality teaching; Termination of the contract of Wheeler after capability procedures.

Reports on the decision of Great Britain General Teaching Council to ban Helen Longstaff from teaching for two years after she altered test papers of her students. Discovery of the guilt of Longstaff of professional misconduct; Resignation of Longstaff; Observation of external markers that a number of answers on some of the papers had been altered.

Reports on the discovery of the guilt of Elizabeth Sani, a teacher, on charges of completing the General Certificate of Secondary Education coursework for her pupils by Great Britain General Teaching Council. Issuance of a conditional registration order for completing written and practical work in textiles to Sani; Permission for Sani to continue teaching but must be monitored on a sternly basis by a senior staff; Need for Sani to comply with examination regulations relating to the courses she teaches.

Reports that a teacher who failed her induction year was given a second chance by the General Teaching Council for England in June. Flaws in the way the teacher had been treated; Duty of head teachers to ensure an appropriate induction year for all qualified teachers and to appoint a tutor who will spend time with the NQT.

Reports on the decision of General Teaching Council in giving another two years for newly-qualified teacher Louise Reddy who failed to pass her induction in Great Britain. Challenges faced by Reddy in coping with a class with attention-deficit disorder and two-asylum seekers; Problems involved in the assessment of her qualification as stage two teacher.

Comments on the move of the General Teaching Council to oppose the incentive scheme for teachers in Great Britain.

Reports on the clearance of misconduct issued to Wade Deacon high school teacher Filip Ziebicki about the accusation of mishandling the education trip funds by the General Teaching Council in Great Britain. Discrepancy in the money collected for education trip according headteacher Peter Barrie; Amount of shortage in the trip funds; Acceptance of Ziebicki in using some of trip funds to their organization.

Reports that more than three in five education authorities in Great Britain could be breaking the law by failing to notify the General Teaching Council for England when teachers are sacked or leave to avoid dismissal. Departure or resignation of teachers as a result of concerns about their competency or conduct; Examples of cases not being disclosed to the agency.

Reports on the confession of Whiteknights school headteacher David Hopkins to the General Teaching Council on allowing his students to cheat in national tests in England. Findings on neglecting to keep the exam papers; Cause of demote from his position; Reasons of Hopkins in letting his students cheat.

Reports on the criticism regarding the teacher disciplinary hearings of the General Teaching Council (GTC) in Great Britain. Number of teachers barred from the classroom; Absence of a teacher disciplinary hearing in Wales; Failure of GTC to establish work clarity and purpose. INSET: STRUCK OFF THE REGISTER..

Comments on ideas and policies imparted by Ralph Tabberer as head of the Teacher Training Agency in Great Britain.