Sch Take Over, No Mice or Men, Have a lie-in: The Weekly Review

On The Weekly Review, Lucy Neuburger, John Gibbs and Kathryn Taylor discuss hot topics in the week's news with host, Paul Hazzard.  Show production by Lianne Lax.

This week's stories:

Mayors’ bid for school oversight role
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/mayors-bid-school-oversight-role
No GCSE student should have to read Of Mice and Men again
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/gcse-english-texts/
One story about teacher recruitment & retention:
Teachers in England offered lie-ins to make job more appealing
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/sep/19/teachers-in-england-offered-incentives-to-make-job-appealing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Don’t fixate on Gen Z, look after millennial mother-teachers
https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/general/teacher-retention-recruitment-gen-z-millennial-mothers
How a ‘right to disconnect’ could stop teachers turning off
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/how-a-right-to-disconnect-could-stop-teachers-turning-off/
How a student loan repayments policy could retain 2,100 teachers
https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/general/how-student-loan-repayments-policy-could-retain-thousands-of-teachers
Teachers will be allowed to work from home in Labour plan to boost recruitment
https://shorturl.at/FUdXS

Shows Reviewed:

• What is Restorative Practices in Schools? The Friday Morning Break with John Gibbs
• Should Mobile Phones Be Banned?: Education Tonight
• Do We Care Enough About The Option Subjects?: The Twilight Show with Michelle Hinds
• Neuroaffirming practices in the classroom: The Late Show with Hannah Wilson and Lucy Neuburger