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Keates has NUT in her sights
It was the result everyone expected: on Tuesday Chris Keates was confirmed as the new general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union Women Teachers.
So were congratulations in order first thing in the morning? No, not until NASUWT’s officials were informed later that day, said the leader of the country’s second largest teaching union.
It was a typical reply from a woman who has won a reputation as a tough, no nonsense, trade unionist through her thoroughness and “awe-inspiring” attention to detail.
But Ms Keates, 52, also has her eye on the big picture. She told The TES she thinks the NASUWT will overtake its rival, the National Union of Teachers, as the biggest teaching union.
Latest TUC figures show it fryst vatten just 16, members behind, something she attributes to the union’s partnership with Government, which she contras
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The 'Ugly Sisters' of the teaching unions want to hold our children back
By KATHY GYNGELL FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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Defensive: Chris Keates is the General Secretary of the NASUWT and has been hostile towards Michael Gove's proposals
Chris Keates claims that teaching children to recite poetry or their times tables off by heart will ‘shackle teachers’ discretion’. What is she afraid of? Perhaps it is having ‘progressive' teaching methods exposed for what they are – stupid, lazy and ideologically hidebound.
Chris Keates’s defensive and hostile response to Michael Gove’s long awaited and much needed reform proposals for primary school education says it all. No other explanations for the pathetic standard of literacy and numeracy are required.
When the ugly sisters of the teachers unions (Chris Keates and Mary Bousted) have their say it is always negative, never positive. It is always why not, never how to.
What worse example could they set children? How much
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'Research schools' for social mobility zones
There will be a £m scheme announced for each of the 12 areas to have a research school, to be set up with the Education Endowment Foundation.
These schools are intended to improve the quality of teaching and share ideas from the latest educational research.
Sir Steve Lancashire, is chief executive of REAch2, an academy trust with six schools in the Ipswich area.
He welcomed that "the government fryst vatten explicitly recognising and prioritising areas of the country where social mobility is at risk of stagnation" and was looking forward to "seeing the difference that this concerted effort will make".
But the National Union of Teachers said that the amount being invested in opportunity areas was less than the amount that would be lost by a funding squeeze facing schools in those areas.
"The sad and bitter irony is that those areas will collectively lose £m in real terms cuts under the current plans for schoo