Media Coverage 2008

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"Voice clear on policy: Scrap SATs": Derby Evening Telegraph, 13 May 2008

 

School tests report: ePolitix Stakeholder Briefing, 13 May 2008

 

"Sats tests under renewed attack": Birmingham Post, 13 May 2008

 

"School testing harms children, say MPs": Politics.co.ik, 13 May 2008

 

"Voice calls for end to "obsessive testing regime": Politics.co.uk. 12 May 2008

 

"Higher thinking": SecEd, 8 May 2008

 

"Nanny cams cause concern": CCTV Technology News & Society, 28 April 2008

 

General Secretary Philip Parkin interviewed about ’nannycams’: BBC1 Breakfast, 28 April 2008 (video)

 

"Voice: Teachers should accept recommendations": Politics.co.uk, 23 April 2008

 

Interview with General Secretary Philip Parkin on NUT strike: GMTV, 06.20am, 23 April 2008 (video)

 

Media briefing: Strikes/ Industrial action by other unions: Interview given by General Secretary Philip Parkin, 22 April 2008

 

"Teachers to Strike in Britain": OhmyNews International, South Korea, 22 April 2008 

 

"Q&A NUT teachers’ strike": BBC News Online,  21 April 2008

 

 

"Unions press on teacher pay deal": Financial Times, 17 April 2008

 

"Teachers’ key guest": Derby Evening Telegraph, 14 April 2008


"Teachers split over strike": TES, 4 April 2008

 

"Union unity": Letter from General Secretary Philip Parkin, The Independent (Education), 3 April 2008

 

"Nursery Nurses in Schools may be made Redundant under EYFS Legislation": Children Webmag, 1 April 2008

 

"Union address: Now you are the masters": SecEd, 27 March 2008

 

"New voice for staff": Independent Schools Magazine, March 2008 (pdf)

 

"Voice: School ceremonies are un-British": Politics.co.uk, 11 March 2008

 

"New teachers to follow masters programme": Education Guardian, 7 March 2008

 

"PAT and PANN to speak with a new voice": Nursery World, 6 March 2008

 

"Union gets new name": Derby Evening Telegraph, 5 March 2008

 

"Teaching Unions have relaunched": Children and Young People Now, 5 March 2008

 

"New voice for education and childcare": Nursery Education Plus, 3 March 2008

 

"New Voice for Education and Child Care": Children Webmag, 1 March 2008

 

ePolitix interview with Philip Parkin, 29 February 2007

 

"New voice for education and childcare", A2 Media, 28 February 2008

 


"PAT’s view" (cookery): Independent Schools Magazine, March 2008 (pdf)

 

"Busy Bees uncertainty sparks job fears": Children and Young People Now, 5 March 2008

 

"Eur-eek-a! Pupil’s 40ft leap of faith for science": London Evening Standard, 3 March 2008

 

"High achievers: Finding young minds for science": The Independent, 27 February 2008

 

"Other views":  The Times, 19 February 2008 

 

ePolitix briefing: Children’s cultural initiative: 14 February 2008

 

"A cultural revolution in the classroom": Yorkshire Post, 14 February 2008

 

’Culture is already on the curriculum here’: Derby Evening Telegraph, 14 February 2008

 

"Burnham launches plan to encourage children to take part in arts": The Stage, 13 February 2008

 

"Cool response to Government’s five hours of culture for pupils": 24 Hour Museum, 13 February 2008

 

 

"Pupil culture pledge ‘admirable but naïve’": 24 Dash, 13 February 2008

"Teachers critical of ’unrealistic’ culture target": Education Guardian, 13 February 2008

 

 

BBC News 24 interview with Philip Parkin on primary testing/starting age, 12.20pm, 8 February 2008 (video link)

 

"English children ‘are most tested in the world’": The Times, 8 February 2008

 

ePolitix briefing: School trips, 5 February 2008

 

"Nanny of the Year 2008: Nursery World, 31 January 2008

 

"Union address: PAT: Reporting to parents": SecEd, 31 January 2008

 

"Recipe for success?": SecEd, 31 January 2008

 

"[Nursery] Nurses raise fear over rising cost of childcare": Derby Evening Telegraph, 30 January 2008

 

ePolitix Briefing: Childcare costs, 29 January 2008

 

"Childcare in the eye of a storm": The Herald, 28 January 2008

 

"More than just porridge": Guardian Unlimited, 25 January 2008


"Divided opinions": SecEd, 24 January 2008

 

"Kevin Harcombe: Teachers are just no good at going on strike": The Independent (Education), 24 January 2008

 

"Concerns at cookery class rules": Derby Evening Telegraph, 23 January 2008

 

"Calls for financial lessons - not cookery": Birmingham Post, 23 January 2008

 

"Food, glorious food – and now learning how to cook it is compulsory": The Times, 23 January 2008

 

ePolitix briefing: Cooking lessons, 22 January 2008

 

"Cooking lessons to be made compulsory in schools": Education Guardian, 22 January 2008

 

"Compulsory cooking classes launch anti-obesity drive": Politics.co.uk, 22 January 2008

 

"We cannot afford to widen the divide": SecEd, 17 January 2008

 

"Teachers’ action threat over pay ’cut’": Yorkshire Post, 16 January 2008

 

"Teachers’ dismay at low rises": Derby Evening Telegraph, 16 January 2008

 

"Teachers in England and Wales may strike despite pay increase": The Herald, 16 January 2008

 

"Teachers may vote on action over ‘pay cut’": Western Mail, 16 January 2008

 

ePolitix Briefing: Teachers’ pay, 15 January 2008

 

"Parents turn teachers to beat bullying and bunking": Bexley Extra, 15 Janaury 2008

 

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House of Commons Hansard Debates for 14 Jan 2008 (pt 0013)

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"Teachers voice their worry about big brother monitors": Derby Evening Telegraph, 14 January 2008

 

ePolitix briefing: "Electronic school reports" (Stakeholder response: PAT) 9 January 2008

 

"Teachers fear email reports mean more work": Education Guardian, 9 January 2008

 

 "The end-of-term school report to become weekly online updates": Daily Mail, 9 January 2008

 

"School reports going electronic": BBC News Online: 9 January 2008