A MORI Social Research Institute survey of Britain's big employers published by Daycare Trust and BUPA Children@work for the start of the first National Childcare Month
Public support for the use of government funds to enable children from low income families to attend independent schools has risen to its highest level since Labour came to office, a new survey shows.
New research reveals that nearly all Secondary Heads, in schools piloting Government reforms at Key Stage 3, support the principle of a Key Stage 3 Strategy and agree that the Government must now afford a high priority to secondary school pupils.
New research from the Social Research Institute shows people who have the qualifications to take up a teaching career have a much poorer impression of the profession than other members of the public. The apparent day-to-day disadvantages of a teaching career greatly outweigh the personal and social advantages, as far as many graduates are concerned
Voters are unhappy with tuition fees and the scrapping of student grants, according to two MORI polls conducted for The THES in March and April this year.
Nine out of ten teachers say they are spending a lot of time on assessment procedures that most claim are ineffective. The results of a survey1 carried out by MORI on behalf of Goal plc, the online assessment provider, show that the average teacher works 56 hours a week, three and a half hours of which are spent on formal assessment - writing and preparing, marking, analysing and reporting.
As the four major teaching unions threaten a 35-hour week, a recent MORI poll reveals that 60 per cent of British teachers are now working at least 56 hours a week.
