Voice Annual Conference 2008:
Conference coverage:
Your Voice, October 2008 (pdf)
"VOICE : A Report on their Annual Conference": Children Webmag, 1 September 2008
"16-year-olds to work in primary schools": Daily Telegraph, 4 August 2008
"Nanny nets national accolade": Shropshire Star, 30 July 2008
"Open-toe sandals ’are a safety risk in nurseries’": London Evening Standard, 1 August 2008
"New Union Leader ’Has School Kids’ Interests at Heart’": Red Orbit, 1 August 2008
"New union leader ’has school kids’ interests at heart’: Lincolnshire Echo, 31 July 2008’
"Teachers urge cadet forces for state-run schools": Western Mail, 30 July 2008
"Parents ’no longer teaching morals’": PA, 30 July 2008
"’NO QUICK FIX’ FOR LACK OF RESPECT": Grimsby Evening Telegraph, 31 July 2008
"Teacher’s union calls for emulation of private school cadets": SFS, 31 July 2008
Calls to ’bring back school cadets’: BBC Radio 4, Today, 31 July 2008
"Teacher union backs cadet force": BBC News, 30 July 2008
"State school cadet forces urged": Press Association, 30 July 2008
"Army cadets should be established in all schools": Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2008
"Teachers vote for cadet forces in schools": The Guardian, 30 July 2008
"Teachers call for return of state school cadet forces": Daily Mail, 30 July 2008
"Teachers’ leader attacks ’greedy’ parents": The Independent, 31 July 2008
"Pushover parents to blame:" London Evening Standard, 31 July 2008
Lindsay McIntosh: "Are our children trapped?": The Scotsman, 31 July 2008
"Teachers encouraged to compensate for parenting ’downward spiral’": The Guardian, 30 July 2008’
"Death of traditional family ’leaves pupils out of control’": Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2008
"Parents today lack ability to bring up children, teachers warn": The Times, 30 July 2008
"Parents ’no longer teaching morals’": PA, 30 July 2008
"Moral teaching lost at home": The Sun, 30 July 2008
"Teachers’ union hits out at death of traditional family": London Evening Standard, 30 July 2008
"Lazy Parents? Must Be Summer": Raising Kids, 31 July 2008
"Pupils’ health being put at risk by wi-fi internet in schools": Daily Mail, 28 July 2008
"Suspend wi-fi in schools, says union chief": Daily Mail, 28 July 2008
"Wireless internet should be banned from schools": Daily Telegraph, 28 July 2008"
’Incoherent’ students being accepted for nursery nurse training, The Guardian, 30 July 2008
’Nursery staff are abysmal’: The Sun, 31 July 2008
"Toddlers are being held back", Daily Mail 30 July 2008
"Nursery assistants with poor social skills": Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2008
"Parents are bringing up children who ’lack discipline and moral boundaries’, says teachers’ leader": Daily Mail, 30 July 2008
"Minister: Every school can have a police officer": The Independent, 30 July 2008
"Schools ’should have own police’: BBC News Online 29 July 2008
"Teaching ’being done on cheap’": Leicester Mercury, 31 July 2008
"Schools exploiting ’cut-price teachers’": The Guardian, 29 July 2008
"Increasing number of children being taught by classroom assistants,": Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2008
"Schools ’using’ teaching assistants": PA, 29 July 2008
"’Confusing’ system needs shake-up": PA, 29 July 2008
"Range of qualifications ’confusing’": PA, 29 July 2008
"Pupils ’confused’ by exams maze": BBC News Online, 31 July 2008
"Teachers still in the dark over new diplomas, union leader says": The Guardian, 28 July 2008
"New diplomas in chaos weeks before launch": The Independent", 29 July 2008
"New diplomas ’haphazard at best’": PA, 29 July 2008
"Schoolchildren being ’pushed into studying new diplomas’", Daily Mail, 29 July 2008
Conservative press statement, 28 July 2008
"Teachers not ready for diplomas": The Guardian, 28 July 2008
"Warning over diploma ’confusion’": ePolitix, 29 July 2008
"Private schools may be right to be wary of diplomas": SFS News, 29 July 2008
"Union chairman to urge recruitment": Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 29 July 2008
"Muslim faith schools cause segregation, say teachers": Daily Mail, 29 July 2008
"Union to hear call for school cadet force units": Western Mail, 28 July 2008
Muslim schools debate: Sunday Express, 27 July 2008
"Teachers’ union calls for an end to ’divisive’ faith schools’: Daily Mail, 26 July 2008
"Physical training in schools should be compulsory": Daily Telegraph, 25 July 2008
"Schoolchildren ’bewildered’ by range of new qualifications": Daily Telegraph, 25 July 2008
"Muslim schools fuel segregation, say teachers": Daily Telegraph, 25 July 2008