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Classrooms need more male teachers, charity says
England’s classrooms need more male teachers, an education charity says, as government figures show a continued gender gap in the profession. Department for Education statistics show 26% of teachers in England are men – accounting for 38% of secondary and 15% of primary school teachers. To mark World Teachers’ Day, the charity Teach First is […]
Read MoreWanted: Cosla wants more men to work in nurseries across Scotland to solve staffing crisis
More men have been urged to work in nurseries to help address a chronic shortfall in the number of childcare staff across Scotland. An extra 18,000 new workers will be required by 2020 to meet a Scottish Government commitment to expand free childcare places, but not enough new members of staff are being trained to […]
Read MoreWhy we need more male teachers and more female principals
Classrooms are a microcosm of society. In our schools, children learn the stories they will tell themselves for the rest of their lives, stories formed from the material they have around them. What will today’s primary children tell themselves about gender? Men have been steadily disappearing from Irish classrooms since the 1970s. In 1961, nearly […]
Read MoreFree teacher training program for men labeled gender discrimination
Global Times A new teacher training program has been created for men in Fujian province, Beijing News reported on Sept. 26. The project was initiated last year by the Fujian Provincial Education Department, together with three other local departments and five teacher training universities. The purpose of the program is to ease the serious gender […]
Read MoreNZ Police heads towards gender balance while the Ministry of Education holds on to sex-role stereotypes for early childhood educ
New Zealand Police attempts to recruit more women have been successful and rewarded. In 2012 just 24 per cent of new police recruits across the country were women, but last year that number jumped to nearly 36 per cent thanks to new programmes targeted specifically at females. For police to have the trust and confidence […]
Read MoreNew Zealand Expert calls for government to act on lack of men in early childhood education
An early childcare researcher is calling on the Government to do more to address a lack of men in pre-school teaching. Sarah Alexander, of research organisation ChildForum, met Ministry of Education staff last week to discuss the gender gap in early childhood education (ECE), which she says could be improved with political support. “We are […]
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