Media Coverage 2006
Grammar and texts: transcript of interview on BBC Radio Derby, 21 December 2006 (pdf)
"Teachers? outrage as report brands schools ?institutionally racist?": Daily Mail, 11 December 2006
"Teachers? outrage as report brands schools ?institutionally racist?": London Evening Standard, 10 December 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: School trips, 28 November 2006
"Teachers support outdoors policy": Derby Evening Telegraph, 28 November 2006
"Union criticises TV ?Supernanny? tag": 24Dash.com, 21 November 2006
"To Sir with hate: teachers? fury over ratings Website insults": Daily Mirror, 13 November 2006
"Unions hit out at quasi-police move", TES, 20 October 2006 (pdf)
ePolitix Forum Brief: Committee Report on Education, 17 October 2006
"One million pupils receive substandard schooling, say MPs": The Observer, 8 October 2006
"Thousands going to ?poor schools?": BBC News Online, 7 October 2006
"500 schools should shut": The People, 7 October 2006
"Adviser rapped for ?scaremongering? ": Guardian Online/Press Association, 7 October 2006
"We have to stop violent young players joining the professional game by weeding them out when they display violence": Western Mail, 6 October 2006
Letter in Independent (Education), 5 October 2006
"Voice care call", SecEd, 28 September 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: Britain?s ?junk culture?, 14 September 2006
"Meeting time": South Wales Evening Post, 7 September 2006
ePolitix Forum brief: Head teacher recruitment, 6 September 2006
Coverage of Voice Annual Conference 2006, Oxford:
Professionalism in Practice: the Voice journal, October 2006
(pdf)
"Case of Mr X shows system is still unfair", SecEd, 28 September 2006
"Gillian Taft is Professional Nanny of the Year 2006": Nannytax News, August 2006
""Teachers ?need voice training? for sake of pupils": RCSLT News, August 2006
Interview with Voice Chairman Deborah Lawson, CommunityCare.co.uk, 15 August 2006
"Clever isn?t a dirty word": Sunday Times, 6 August 2006
"Not ?cool? for teachers to call UK kids clever": Electric New Paper, Singapore, 6 August 2006
"Reforms hit support staff": TES, 4 August 2006
"The pupils scared of being told they?re clever": Daily Mail, 4 August 2006
"Telling pupils they?re clever is uncool, teachers warned": The Independent, 4 August 2006
"It?s not cool to be clever at school, teachers warned": The Guardian, 4 August 2006
"Why we need to care more": Western Daily Press, 4 August 2006
"Teachers told it?s not cool to be called a clever pupil": The Herald, 3 August 2006
"Yeah, but Ms Lawson?s right", Gloucestershire Echo, 3 August 2006
"Vicky Pollard": The Guardian, 3 August 2006
"Nurseries ?fostering generation of Vicky Pollards?": The Guardian, 3 August 2006
"Sloppy nursery staff ?at risk of creating Vicky Pollards?": Daily Telegraph, 3 August 2006
"Schools and children ?are suffering under Blair?": The Independent, 3 August 2006
"Pupils ?cannot be called clever?": BBC News Online, 3 August 2006
"Young should start school at seven, says MP": The Guardian, 3 August 2006
"Parental school choice ?naive?": BBC News Online, 2 August 2006
"School workers ?pushed too far?": BBC News Online, 2 August 2006
"Parenting classes in schools defeated": Birmingham Post, 2 August 2006
"Vocal cords need to be brushed up for the classroom": The Times, 2 August 2006
"All the world?s a stage - especially classrooms, says school union": The Guardian, 2 August 2006
"What teachers could learn from actors": Daily Telegraph, 2 August 2006
"Nursery trainees ?cannot spell?": BBC News Online, 2 August 2006
"?Vicky Pollard? warning to nursery staff": Daily Mail, 2 August 2006
"Teachers ?need voice training?": BBC News Online, 1 August 2006
"Teachers urge better parenting advice": PA News/TES, 1 August 2006
"Schools ?should teach parenting skills?": PA News/TES, 1 August 2006
"So much to learn ? English, maths and nappy-changing": The Times, 31 July 2006
"Pupils ?must learn about nappies?": BBC News Online, 28 July 2006
"Call for nappy change classes": TES, 28 July 2006
"Professional Association of Teachers hail ’cyber-bullying’ guidelines": 24Dash.com, 25 July 2006
"Firewall for bullies": Derby Evening Telegraph, 26 July 2006
"Government acts on cyber-bullies": BBC News, 25 July 2006
"Workers to fight on against pay shake-up": Sunderland Echo, 14 July 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: SEN schools, 6 July 2006
"Wage rises could be bad news for nursery users": Lincolnshire Echo, 5 July 2006
"Voice: Welcomes nursery nurse minimum wage": Politics.co.uk, 4 July 2006
"Government to investigate nurseries to ensure childcare staff are getting correct pay": Personnel Today: 3 July 2006
"Nurseries face minimum wage probe": BBC News Online, 3 July 2006
"Childcare over the summer": BBC News, 27 June 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: School vetting, 21 June 2006
"Does more mean less?" by John Till, SecEd, 15 June 2006
"Under inspection": Sure Start Magazine 11, Summer 2006 (pdf)
ePolitix Forum Brief: Education policy, 25 May 2006
ePolitix Stakeholder comment: Education and Inspections Bill, 23 May 2006
"Britishness could soon be on the curriculum": Derby Evening Telegraph, 16 May 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: Teaching British values, 15 May 2006
"Alan Johnson: The return of Mr Smooth": Independent: Education, 11 May 2006
"Teachers welcome Johnson?s appointment as Education Secretary": 24dash.com, 5 May 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: Government reshuffle ? education stakeholders respond, 5 May 2006
Letter (trust schools): The Independent: Education, 4 May 2006
Letter (unions): Guardian (Education), 02 May 2006
"Tarrant on teachers": Teachers? TV News, 27 April 2006
"Outrage over tough new targets for 5-year-olds": The Independent, 27 April 2006 [Speech and full Voice comment.]
Letter (unions): Guardian (Education), 18 April 2006
"Teachers back campaign against false accusations": SecEd, 2 March 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: Education and Insepctions Bill, 28 February 2006
"Unions downbeat on revised bill": BBC News Online, 28 February 2006
Letter: "Teaching pupils good manners", The Independent, 25 February 2006
"Bar child mobile services, say MPs": The Times, 20 February 2006
Letter: "Send the right message on trips", TES, 17 February 2006
ePolitix: interview with General Secretary Philip Parkin, 13 February 2006
"Teachers welcome plans to punish badly behaved pupils": 24dash.com, 9 February 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: School reforms, 7 February 2006
"Too many classroom assistants ?teach?": 24 Dash.com, 30 January 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: Schools White Paper, 27 January 2006
"Kelly?s proposals welcomed ? but worries remain": Yorkshire Post, 20 January 2006
"Sex offenders banned from teaching": Teaching Times, 20 January 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: "Over a million children taught in failing schools": 12 January 2006
"Head Teacher Shortage": Politics.co.uk Issue of the Day, 11 January 2006
ePolitix Forum Brief: "Respect" action plan, 10 January 2006
"Heads call for ?respect? funding": BBC News, 10 January 2006