Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
Newswire – TUC: Recently the TUC launched a new set of learning resources for use in schools & colleges. Designed for teachers to use in classrooms at secondary schools (key stage level 4 & above), the Unions into Schools website brings together a mass of historical & contemporary information, using rich content such as videos & role play activities to make learning about unions an ‘exciting interactive experience’.
The resources include lesson plans, slide presentations featuring videos, activities & quizzes, factsheets and links to other sites providing complementary materials to help extend students' understanding of unions, their history and the role they play in the contemporary workplace & society.
DfE: The Department for Education is looking at the induction arrangements for newly qualified teachers to see how they can be refined, improved & updated to better meet the needs of teachers and schools. Qualified teachers who are employed in maintained schools in England must, by law, have completed an induction period after their initial training. The induction period usually lasts for three terms.
The current regulations & guidance on statutory induction were last updated in 2008, run to more than 70 pages and are based on the needs of the school system in 1999. Some schools say that current process is bureaucratic and can be a barrier to recruiting & retaining good teachers. The DfE will informally consult with key stakeholders such as headteachers, induction coordinators and newly qualified teachers.
The Department will formally consult on new regulations for the statutory induction period in the autumn term. The DfE expect that new arrangements will come into force by September 2012, along with the revised Teachers’ Standards.
CC: The Competition Commission (CC) has published guidance for parties involved in telecoms price appeals. The new guidelines result from a review published by the CC in January 2011, which made a number of recommendations for the CC & other bodies with the aim of making the overall process for such appeals more effective & efficient. At the same time, the CC consulted on draft guidelines and is now publishing the final version of these along with a summary of responses to the original draft.
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