Ronnie Hassard, the head-teacher at Ballymena Academy, which uses the GL assessment exam, said that the money for the tests came from individual grammar schools and was processed through the PPTC and paid to GL Assessment.
On head teacher posts, she said the annual census - published on Thursday - had shown that both head teacher and deputy head vacancy rates in maintained schools were the lowest they had been since 1997.
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Placements and school-based training will be extended and there will more emphasis on support from line managers, who can "sponsor" a would-be head teacher within their staff.
There's also an article by reporter Hiroko Tashiro, former head of the parent-teacher association at a suburban Tokyo elementary school, on the anxieties that her daughter--and millions of Japanese schoolchildren--face in the nation's rigid education system.
After the case of head teacher Majorie Evans - who was suspended for 18 months before being cleared of assaulting a pupil - there was some political will to address the issue, Mr Hytch told delegates.
Major General John Moore-Bick, head teacher of The Skinners' School, said it would ensure there was sufficient classroom space for the extra pupils after governors had concluded "that the greatly prized standards of the school could be upheld".
Among the primary schools to have taken part in a pilot was Vicarage Park in Kendal, Cumbria - with the head teacher Anne Hallam saying that the scheme had a "significant impact" on helping boys to articulate their emotions.
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Mrs King said she rejected a place at Sherwood Park after reading the latest Ofsted report, which highlighted attendance issues, concerns about below-average academic attainment, the news that the current head teacher was leaving, and the 1.1-mile walk to the school.
The wife of a drug baron who fled Britain after killing a school teacher in a head-on crash has been jailed.
In the attack at the private Jewish school Ozar Hatorah on Monday, a man wearing a motorcycle helmet and driving a motor scooter pulled up and shot a teacher and three children -- two of them the teacher's young sons -- in the head.
Highland Council is still having problems filling a head teacher vacancy at a Gaelic-medium school in Inverness.
Highland Council has defended its efforts to fill a head teacher vacancy at a Gaelic-medium school in Inverness.
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Head teacher Julie Robinson is the vice-chairman of the Independent Association of Prep Schools.
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Ms Mann, a mother-of-two, took up the head teacher's post at Sytchampton Endowed school about six months ago.
The party, at the end of the summer term, was a send-off for Keith Marden, head teacher at Sherwood Park Community Primary in Tunbridge Wells.
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Issac Sheppard's head teacher, Jim Otto, half-jokes that officials from the school district do not come to the school much, so concerned are they for their physical safety and that of their cars.
"We will be able to provide support for developing the education service in Madagascar, teacher training in effect - it's part of our expertise, " added the head teacher.
Decisions on day-to-day management are taken by the head teacher.
Head teacher Thomas Marshall said temperatures had fallen to about -6C on Monday night.
Vice-president of the NAHT and Staffordshire primary school head teacher Bernadette Hunter said Ofsted was putting an "intolerable amount of stress" on heads.
Head teacher Deborah Crabb told the hearing that the seven-year-old girl was not being bullied but "taking part in an inappropriate game which had gone too far".
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The head teacher and five staff members remain suspended over alleged ill-treatment including locking a pupil in a room.
Powys council said the governors' decision to suspend the head teacher was taken "upon the recommendation of a multi-disciplinary professional strategy meeting which included the police and social services".
Clarissa Williams, head teacher of Tolworth Girls' School in Surbiton, Kingston-upon-Thames, said the government had had excellent intentions towards these children and had spent money to close the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots".
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The reader is left saddened by the fact that, despite an excellent head teacher and a generous government, the streetwise children of education-averse parents can be so hard to deal with.
According to one head teacher, students find any number of ways to smuggle them in - hidden in pens, in the folds of their uniform or in the pages of their notebooks.
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Aamir's head teacher at his school, the private Cardiff Academy for GCSE and A-level students, remembers a lovely pupil who was very academically gifted.
Ysgol Pennant's head teacher Buddug Bates welcomed the decision, but claimed the school's long-term future remained uncertain.
Staff were soaked with water bombs, washing-up liquid was squirted into the eyes of one teacher, and the head's office was "trashed", she said.
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But leading head teacher Anthony Seldon, in charge of Wellington College, warmly welcomed the proposals - and called for a more demanding approach to essay writing.
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