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Finland: Incentives for Male Teacher Trainees?
The Ministry of Education is considering whether to offer incentives to encourage male university applicants to study for qualification to become school teachers. A report in the daily Aamulehti claims that reforms to the laws governing tertiary studies are being considered. New legislation will be introduced in 2010. In practice, incentives will take the form […]
Read MoreAbolishing Irish rule ‘won’t close gender gap’ in teaching
A NEW report has found that the abolition of the honours Irish requirement will not entice more men to become primary school teachers. Politicians, such as former education minister Mary Hanafin, have suggested that dropping the honours Irish rule would help tackle the gender imbalance in national schools. In fact, the opposite would happen, according to […]
Read MoreTake A Shot At This – Men teaching in Scotland
A Football Coach Is Encouraging More Men To Follow His Example And Become Child And Youth Care Workers STEVIE MORRISON may have fallen just short of achieving Scottish Cup glory at Hampden last weekend. But the Queen of the South coach is still hoping to achieve another goal, and that’s persuading men to take a […]
Read MoreDutch MP calls for more male school teachers
Dutch Christian Democrats (CDA) have called for an increase in the number of male teachers in primary schools. CDA MP Jan Jacob van Dyke claims that children are better off if they are taught by both men and women. At the moment, the majority of primary school teachers are women. According to the CDA, teacher […]
Read MorePhotos & video from the Working Forum MECE in Hawaii, USA
Here are two of the photos from the 2008 Working Forum Men in Early Childhood Education. As we secure additional photos we’ll post them. Included is Wakiki Beach, site of the conference hotel and the last gathering at the closing ceremony with the Leadership Team on stage. The conference was held at a hotel on […]
Read MoreOne of the many groups at the World Forum
I’ve been trying to set the time aside to post to MenTeach but there has been so many e-mails to answer. One of the participants sent me a photo of our discussion group (there were several). It has taken five years to make the event happen – it was outstanding! It’s really hard to express […]
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