World News
Chinese male teachers face kindergarten conundrum
When Yu Zehong started teaching at a kindergarten in Beijing in 2018, some parents asked to transfer their children to other classes. The parents did not have a good impression of male teachers. Some were worried because of news reports about male staff members sexually assaulting children, while others thought a man would be too […]
Read MoreKenya: Ensure gender balance in teacher training colleges to attain equity
In the past 10 years, there has been a downward trend in enrolment of male candidates to teacher training colleges at the primary school level. I’ve heard from a number of principals that, in some colleges, female students comprise two-thirds to three-quarters of the total number. Should the trend continue, we will have boys in […]
Read MoreDundee Scotland equalities champion: More men should work in nurseries
Councillor Lynne Short has called on council officers to ramp up efforts to recruit a greater number of men into the city’s nurseries. Official figures from the Scottish Social Services Council, which manages Scotland’s early years workforce, shows just 2% of it is male. The rates vary from as much as 8% of creche staff […]
Read MoreHalf of Gloucestershire primary schools have no male teachers
Half of all primary schools in Gloucestershire have no male teachers. New analysis of school workforce figures has revealed that 52 primary schools in Gloucestershire have an all-female teaching staff. Excluding schools where the gender split of teachers is not available, that works out as 50 per cent of all primaries in our area. Experts […]
Read MoreNursery Management: International – Men of the world
Achieving real gender balance in the early years continues to flummox countries across the world. On average in OECD countries, just 3.2 per cent of pre-primary teachers are male, with the rate lower than 1 per cent in most of Eastern Europe, Israel and Portugal. Despite a 20 per cent minimum target for male workers […]
Read MoreAustralian man speaks about his aim to see more men working in ECEC
Australia’s ECEC sector is dominated by female employees with statistics from the Australian Government revealing that less than 3 per cent of all employees in the sector are male. Currently employed as a childcare worker at SDN Beranga, an autism specific preschool in Rooty Hill, Mr Conneely enrolled in the qualification after beginning his career […]
Read More