‘You’re basically being a parent to 30 children’: Greater Manchester teachers face mounting issues amid rising job vacancies
As classroom teacher vacancies rise for the third year in a row, MM asks whether the profession’s issues stem from
‘It could have been my kids’: Mother of four to travel to Calais to assist migrants
After watching the news and reading stories of the desperate migrant situation in Calais, a Mobberley teacher and mother of four has decided to join the volunteer movement there.
‘Peculiar’: Man Uni experts attack plans to scrap ICT GCSEs and A Levels in 2017
Scrapping ICT GCSE and A Levels for computer science because they are ‘in a similar space’ is like saying ‘stitching footballs and playing football are the same thing’, argues a developement informatics professor.
‘No winners today’: Jealous husband jailed for strangling school teacher wife to death
A man who consistently gave a ‘pack of lies’ to everyone has been jailed after he murdered a woman and left her wrapped in a duvet for emergency services to collect.
‘Predatory’ Bury teacher jailed for Facebook grooming of ‘unsuspecting’ pupil
A teaching support worker from Bury who created several fake Facebook profiles in order to befriend young boys online has been imprisoned after grooming a pupil online.
Salford paedo used position as ‘respected’ RE teacher to abuse young girls
A religious studies teacher from Salford used his position as a ‘respected’ member of the community to sexually assault young girls – one victim was just seven-years-old when the abuse began – a sentencing hearing at Manchester Crown Court heard.
Teacher’s pic goes viral in experiment to show pupils online dangers
Hannah Alridge, a year five teacher at Wistaston Academy in Crewe, uploaded the photo on Friday to highlight to her pupils how fast information can travel online as part of Safer Internet Day.
Head who allegedly hit Wythenshawe pupil with ruler banned from teaching for not disclosing sacking
A ‘dishonest’ head teacher was last week banned indefinitely from teaching after she deliberately withheld a previous dismissal for allegedly bullying staff and abusing a child in a Manchester school.
Jailed: Oldham teacher groped boys while they read in FRONT of class on his knee
A sick Oldham teacher who groped nine boys while they sat on his knee and read out passages in front of the school has today been jailed.
The kids say stay: Scotland delivers 73% ‘no’ vote… in Manchester Grammar’s mock independence referendum
The mock referendum, which involved 1,500 pupils aged seven to 18 and 300 teachers, saw the school transformed into a polling station between 8am and 5pm
Eastern promise: Manchester urged to learn Mandarin to break down great wall in business with China
More students need to take up Mandarin if Manchester is to be competitive and bring in Chinese business claims leading business initiative Manchester–China Forum.