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Principals want overhaul of initial teacher education John Gerritsen © RNZ/ Dan Cook Principals are calling for an overhaul of initial teacher education, because some newly qualified primary teachers are ill-prepared to teach basic subjects like reading and maths. The Principals Federation, the Educational Institute, and the Normal and Model School Association told RNZ many new graduates had studied how to be a teacher for just one year and that was not enough. They said recent Teaching Council changes to the requirements that teacher education courses must meet would help, ...

BBC News Published Water companies have been illegally dumping untreated sewage into rivers in England and Wales, an investigation by BBC Panorama has found. Data analysed by the programme showed some companies have regularly breached the conditions in their permits. Treatment works are only allowed to put sewage into waterways after wet weather and when they are close to capacity. The water industry says it will invest more than a billion pounds over five years to reduce discharges into rivers. Treatment works are allowed to release sewage into rivers and streams after extreme weather, such ...

The Fabric Workshop and Museum opens 'Hard/Cover' Installation view. PHILADELPHIA, PA .-The Fabric Workshop and Museum is presenting Hard/Cover, on view from April 9 to September 26, 2021. A collaboration with Philadelphia’s Clay Studio, the exhibition consists of works marking turning points in the respective creative processes of past and current FWM Artists-in-Residence: Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), Viola Frey (1933–2004), Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011), Venturi, Scott Brown, & Associates (founded 1980), Betty Woodman (1930–2018), Woody De Othello (Oakland, CA), Jane Irish (Philadelphia...

Mark Barrow, chief executive of Seckford Education Trust - Credit: Gregg Brown High school heads are gearing up to testing hundreds of students for coronavirus this week before they return to class on Monday. Secondary schools students will be mass tested for Covid-19 in a bid to identify cases before they have a chance to spread and result in an outbreak. Mark Barrow, chief executive of Seckford Education Trust, which manages high schools in Beccles, Saxmundham and Ixworth, said students' wellbeing would be prioritised in the reopening next week. He said: "We are putting in place bespoke t...

Students wearing face masks in a lesson. - Credit: PA High schools in Suffolk are making it mandatory for pupils to wear face masks in lessons when they return next week. Dave Lee-Allan, headteacher of Stowmarket High School - Credit: Charlotte Bond Dave Lee-Allan, headteacher of Stowmarket High School and chair of the Suffolk Association of Secondary Heads, said: "At Stowmarket we intend to insist that students and staff wear masks in lessons - in fact our key worker lessons have been doing this for some time now." He added: "It would be helpful if the Government line was more definitive. Ho...