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England national men in early years conference launches in 2016
Held in Southampton next February, the conference will also introduce a charter for early years settings that welcome male practitioners. Currently less than 2 per cent of the early years workforce is male and the aim is to build up a national resource bank to lobby the Government to encourage men to enter the profession. […]
Read MorePrimary school children need male teachers too
My form teacher during my final year of primary school was called Dr Knight. A brilliant man who remained stoic when my friend tried to glue him to a chair, his specialism was maths. Twenty years later I can still recite the “fractions rap” he taught us: “If you’re adding or subtracting then sooner or […]
Read MoreEx-truckie in New Zealand rewarded for teaching role
Whangarei’s Regan Reti was recently awarded a Ministry of Education Kupe Scholarship as one of the country’s top 30 Maori and Pasifika student teachers. He’s pictured with 4-year-old Durome Henry and 3-year-old Chloe Valentine. There are few men in the field of early childhood education and Regan Reti is one of them – yet only […]
Read MoreWanted: male teachers in the Philippines
My daughter was clearly excited when she came home from her first day at school last June. In between giggles, she blurted out, in Filipino, what seemed almost like a secret: “Our teacher is male.” I thought it was a breakthrough that her school had hired a male to handle the main teaching tasks for […]
Read MoreEstonia has the lowest share of male teachers in European Union
According to Eurostat, in Estonia is just every eighth schoolteacher is male, which is the EU’s lowest indicator, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports. Based on the data of 2013, the share of female teachers is high besides Estonia (88.2%) in the other two Baltic States too. In Latvia the proportion of female teachers is 83.2% and in […]
Read MoreWhat’s behind the shortage of male teachers?
New research by the Australian Catholic University (ACU) of ABS Labour Force data has revealed that for the last 20 years as few as one in five Australian primary school teachers have been male. The ACU reviewed the country’s most populous states and found that in 2014: 16 per cent of NSW primary school teachers […]
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