2010
Men welcome at nursery
A new recruit makes up a quartet of men working in a south London nursery. Ruskin House School, a family-run childcare business in Herne Hill, has had men on the staff for the past ten years. For Howard Blackman, age 25, who started at the nursery earlier this month, it is his first job in […]
Read MoreMale elementary teachers are lauded by educators
Preston Rogers’ fifth-grade students weren’t playing the board games they had on their desks Thursday morning — they were designing them. “I want them to be able to give instructions without them being there,” Rogers said as each student wrote down rules to the different games. Now in his second year at Grant Foreman Elementary […]
Read MoreTeenager urges men to try out the world of childcare
A teenage would-be teaching assistant has added his voice to calls for more men to work in the early years sector. Scott Davidson, from Blaenclydach, Rhondda, is currently undertaking a childcare course at Tonypandy College and encouraged others to consider following suit in a bid to address the low number of men entering the profession. […]
Read MoreRecord numbers of men are training to be primary school teachers at the University of Exeter
What was once a female-dominated profession is becoming increasingly gender-netural, and more men than ever before are applying for post-graduate certificates of education (PGCE) in the field. The university has launched Men in Primary, a scheme offering support for male students through a mentoring programme and a series of workshops. Two male primary school teachers […]
Read MoreJust a quarter of teachers are men in UK, research shows
A generation of boys will encounter barely any male role models throughout their education, opposition MPs warned. In primary schools just one in ten teachers are male and in secondary schools just under half are men – a dramatic change from 20 years ago when men had a majority in secondary staff rooms. Figures disclosed […]
Read MoreUnited Kingdom Department of Education failing to bring men into schools
Almost 40% of primary schools now have no male teachers on their staff. New figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show 1,238 of the state’s 3,248 national schools have an all-female line-up in the classroom. The revelation means that the Department of Education’s expensive efforts to attract men into primary school teaching have […]
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