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Wellington’s Y-Men programme trying to increase the low male ECE teacher numbers
It took a terrible affliction suffered by a sibling for Anaru Jones to find his calling in life. The 22-year-old from Stokes Valley helps out at Tui Park Kindergarten in Linden four days a week as part of programme run by Whanau Maanaki Kindergartens. The Y-Men initiative has seen 32 men, in four groups in […]
Read MoreIreland has far more female teachers than male in all sectors
This is despite only 50% of women acting as principals in primary schools Ireland continues to have more female teachers than male, according to new statistics released by the EU. The figures, released in support of World Teachers’ Day, show that 87 per cent of primary school teachers here are female while 71 per cent […]
Read MoreClassrooms 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 […]
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