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Teacher Support Scotland launches National Support Service

21 August 2008—Teacher Support Scotland today launched its telephone and online support services for serving and retired teachers across the nation at Commercial Primary School in Dunfermline.

Urgent appeal for teachers in need

9 August 2008—The credit crunch has hit many teachers hard. More of them are coming to us for debt advice and grants to help them cope with financial hardship. As a result, we paid out over 50% more in grants in April than we had budgeted for.

More teachers turn to Support Network for help

8 August 2008—More teachers and education professionals turned to the Teacher Support Network Group for assistance between April and June than during the same time last year, the charity has reported.

Quarterly Report Highlights

7 August 2008—The total number of interactions handled across all charities between April and June 2008 was 26,569. This is compared to 22,817 interactions between April and June 2007 and 23,032 in the last quarter. InfoCentre factsheets made up the largest number of interactions (82 per cent) while telephone calls represented 16 per cent. Online Coaching, although in use more than last quarter, still accounted for 2 per cent of all interactions.

Teacher Support Cymru Quarterly Report

7 August 2008—Telephone calls remained the most used of the TSC services, with a massive 58 per cent of total service use. This is in contrast to the rest of the charity services, where telephone calls made up approximately 16 per cent.

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Mental health: combating stigma

17 July 2008—There is a great deal of stigma attached to mental heath. Unfortunately there is a widely-held notion that such issues affect only those on society's margins and that those who experience these kinds of conditions are likely to be unable to function successfully at work.

When is being right wrong?

8 July 2008—The Liberal Democrat's assertion that they will scrap SATs for seven to 14 year olds should they win the next general election is an interesting development in the ever-raging debate around assessment. Hardly a week goes by without an academic, interest group or think tank expressing contradictory opinions over their effectiveness as a means of gauging a child's potential, encouraging learning or educating society more generally.

They’re called teachers!

27 June 2008—Last week, the shadow education secretary, Michael Gove, issued a statement declaring that ‘progressive’ teaching methods have caused great damage to the British education system. He was quoted in The Guardian as saying: "This misplaced ideology has let down generations of children…it privileges temporary relevance over a permanent body of knowledge which should be passed on from generation to generation. We need to tackle [it] wherever it occurs."



  

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