15 h. ago 'So many in tears': Teacher lays bare devastating impact of London's school closure crisis

Four schools in Hackney among wave of closures in the capital due to falling pupil numbers

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42 h. ago ‘Oh my God sir, you’re on Love Island!’ What happens to teachers who do reality TV?

How do you control a class of kids after the whole nation’s watched you backstabbing on The Traitors, snogging strangers on Love Island or starving half to death on Hunted? Three teachers reveal allWhen English teacher Joe Scott used to sign homework planners, it was because students were in trouble. But things changed in January, when the Southampton-based secondary schoolteacher appeared in the latest series of the BBC reality show The Traitors. Pupils started voluntarily pressing their planners into his hands – for autographs. “It felt funny,” says the 38-year-old. “It was such a juxtaposition.”Teachers have always gone on reality TV – but they haven’t always come off well. In 2001, a contestant on the second series of Big Brother was fired from her job at an east London girls’ school after her towel slipped on air. Six years later in 2007, parents complained after an American elementary school teacher missed 22 days of work to appear on The Bachelor. Just last year, a Canadian e...

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42 h. ago Catholic nursery school sacks teacher after a parent discovered her OnlyFans account

Elena Maraga, 29, became embroiled in scandal last month after her pupil's father allegedly bought photos she had been selling on OnlyFans.

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4 d. ago Arizona teacher Eric Chapman seen SMIRKING in court after being arrested for 'having sex with minors'

Eric Chapman, 43, a teacher and head baseball coach at Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly having sex with minors.

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5 d. ago Primary school teacher banned from classroom after online chats with undercover cop

Julian Barker, 50, sent images of a child and took part in 'sexualised' conversations while working as a supply teacher in Bolton

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6 d. ago Former Texas teacher accused of sexual relationship with middle school student

Kara Hernandez faces charges of indecency with a child involving sexual contact and an improper relationship with a student

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7 d. ago One in five teachers hit or punched by pupils in the past year, shocking survey shows

The NASUWT says there have been 30,000 violent incidents against teachers involving pupils with a weapon in the last 12 months

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8 d. ago Steve Coogan on his very unusual new comedy: ‘The penguin takes the edge off the fascism’

In ‘The Penguin Lessons’, the man behind Alan Partridge plays a school teacher in military-occupied Argentina who forms an unlikely bond with a seabird. Such tonal extremes required a delicate hand, he and his co-star Jonathan Pryce tell Annabel Nugent

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1 week ago Primary school teacher who called Muslims 'entitled' and showed blackface film to children is spared classroom ban

Grace Whiley played a video of an old Sinbad film during an English lesson at Bluebell Primary School in Norwich.

Culture

1 week ago Brits could soon be plagued by swarms of deadly Asian hornets as weather warms

The warm start to spring has led to the 25mm-long yellow-legged hornets, which can kill 90,000 pollinating insects in just one season, to successfully breed and surge in numbers

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1 week ago Gout Gout’s winds of change whip Australian athletics into frenzy

Tailwinds are robbing the teenage sprint sensation of astonishing times but his rise is part of a wider movementOn Saturday night, at the Subiaco Hotel in the inner suburbs of Perth, a 17-year-old had a dinner with a group of adults. He ordered a steak. Medium, as is his preference.But this was no ordinary meal, no ordinary teenager. The behaviour of the old pub’s other patrons – some offering glances, some even coming up to the party – gave that much away. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The science behind the perfect cup of coffee: everything you need to know, from grind size to roast

New research on the optimal pour height this week adds another layer to the quest for caffeinated perfection There is an episode of the hit TV series Breaking Bad in which Walter White, high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, meets a new colleague in front of a tangle of clamps, pipes and slowly dripping flasks. When the other character lets him taste what he has been brewing, White is stunned. “My God, that is the best coffee I’ve ever tasted,” he says. “Why the hell are we making meth?”Coffee may not be – quite – as addictive as methamphetamines, but to some of its aficionados, the hunt for the perfect hit of bean, roast, grind and brew is as seductive as any drug. That search took another step forward this week with new research into the optimal height and speed from which to pour water on to coffee grounds. Continue reading...

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1 week ago RICHARD EDEN: Heartache for bonkbuster author Jilly Cooper as daughter and husband split

I can disclose that the author's daughter, Emily, who lives 20 or so miles from Jilly's manor house in the Cotswolds, is now on her own, following the departure of her husband, Adam Tarrant.

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1 week ago Teacher right to let child sit in school toilet for four hours to calm down, panel rules

A child who went into a school toilet at 11am and didn't come out until 3.20pm was safe and came out 'happy and calm', an Education Workforce Council Wales hearing found

Society

2 w. ago Tinder user 'hired hitman to kill police officer ex and his daughter' after split

Jaclyn Diiorio is charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder, alongside other charges, after she offered a Tinder match $12,000 to kill her ex-boyfriend

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2 w. ago Catholic school teacher's outrageous excuse for having sex with her student

Emily Nutley, 43, has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery over a physical relationship with a student at the Ohio school in November and December 2023.

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2 w. ago ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age

They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cutSince 2013, for around two weeks each year, Sulaiman Tarawallie has pulled on his community drug distributor (CDD) uniform and gone from household to household in his remote farming community to hand out medication to fight river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Once he has completed the rounds of his village, he heads further out to take the drugs to even more remote homes – keeping the diseases that had plagued generations at bay with a handful of pills.But this year, Tarawallie, who works as a community health worker and primary school teacher in Sierra Leone’s northern Bombali district, will not be making his annual trip. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Private school sports teacher who let pupils drink alcohol on hockey trip to Belgium and told them 'what goes on tour, stays on tour' avoids classroom ban

Gregory Durston 'turned a blind eye' while children as young as 15 bought rounds of beers and ciders, a Teaching Regulation Agency panel heard.

Society

2 w. ago The Penguin Lessons is just the latest film that teaches us how animals rescue men from loneliness

The comedy, about a curmudgeon played by Steve Coogan and his waddling new friend, joins a subgenre of movies from King Kong to John Wick – in which men are emotionally and socially rescued by animalsThe penguin at the centre of The Penguin Lessons, a new movie by Peter Cattaneo, is nothing if not hard-working. The film, adapted from the 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, uses the political turmoil of Argentina in 1976 as a backdrop for the personal transformation of an English teacher at a boys’ school. Michell (Steve Coogan) is an idle curmudgeon when he rescues an oil-drenched Magellan penguin from a beach in Uruguay in an attempt to impress an attractive woman. She leaves, but he is stuck with the bird, whom he duly names Juan Salvador, and who thaws him out sufficiently to bond with students and colleagues, process past trauma and rekindle a political idealism.Naturally, there are hurdles for Juan Salvador to clear before the interspecies friendship spreads its wings. Michell tries a ...

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2 w. ago The Penguin Lessons is the latest film to teach us animals rescue men from loneliness

The comedy, about a curmudgeon played by Steve Coogan and his waddling new friend, joins a subgenre of movies from King Kong to John Wick – in which men are emotionally and socially rescued by animalsThe penguin at the centre of The Penguin Lessons, a new movie by Peter Cattaneo, is nothing if not hard-working. The film, adapted from the 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, uses the political turmoil of Argentina in 1976 as a backdrop for the personal transformation of an English teacher at a boys’ school. Michell (Steve Coogan) is an idle curmudgeon when he rescues an oil-drenched Magellan penguin from a beach in Uruguay in an attempt to impress an attractive woman. She leaves, but he is stuck with the bird, whom he duly names Juan Salvador, and who thaws him out sufficiently to bond with students and colleagues, process past trauma and rekindle a political idealism.Naturally, there are hurdles for Juan Salvador to clear before the interspecies friendship spreads its wings. Michell tries a ...

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