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Schools launch drive to recruit male teachers
A major push to increase the number of male teachers in primary schools is being launched this week in an attempt to overcome a serious shortage which experts say is affecting boys. Hundreds of men will attend events in schools, where heads, deputies and teachers will try to persuade them to join the profession. The […]
Read MoreMale teachers in the Phillipines
In the last Licensure Examinations for Teachers (LET), a total of 26,812 took the elementary level test while 23,975 took the secondary level exam. Only one male examinee — Gian Carlo Auxilian, a graduate of St. Anthony’s College in Antique—made it to the top 10 in the elementary level. In the secondary level, 11 of […]
Read MoreMen of learning in Australia
Thirteen is the lucky number for Berwick Primary School, where 13 of the school’s 40 staff members are male. Principal Kaye Seton said the male teachers, often rare in a Primary School setting, provided positive male role models for students. “This has not been a deliberate staffing decision but over the years the number of […]
Read More90% of Korean Teachers Back Quota for Male Teachers
Nearly 90 percent of elementary and secondary schoolteachers in a selective survey said schools should establish a quota for male teachers to correct the gender imbalance. The Korean Federation of Teachers’ Associations (KFTA) surveyed a total of 549 teachers; 433 males and 116 females across the nation between July 3 and 6. Most of the […]
Read MoreMale teacher makes a difference in West Indies
With the absence of men in most households in Jamaica, Kayson Jones said a male teacher was very important in his mentoring process. “I find that the children (boys) are excited to have a male role model, someone they can talk to, someone who look like them, someone who smell like them,” said the educator. […]
Read MoreMen welcome at nursery
A new recruit makes up a quartet of men working in a south London nursery. Ruskin House School, a family-run childcare business in Herne Hill, has had men on the staff for the past ten years. For Howard Blackman, age 25, who started at the nursery earlier this month, it is his first job in […]
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