‘We need more men to be teachers’, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says, with boys’ behaviour ‘the defining issue of our time’

“It is essential to release this information because it gives an indication of what is the evolution of our educational system and the results that are achieved”

Responsible for Education warns that reading the school rankings “must be more careful”. Comparison between schools should take into account the students' socioeconomic context, he says.

The Minister of Education defended today in Porto that the reading of the school 'rankings' “must be more careful” and admitted that the lack of teachers has an impact on the results known today. “We have no doubts [that the lack of teachers has an impact on school success]. It is no accident that we defined it as a priority to reduce the high number of students without classes for extended periods and by the end of the legislature we had define…

School directors today criticized the release of the 'rankings' of schools that claim to “compare the incomparable”, warning that the analyses ignore factors that impact student performance, such as the lack of teachers or the socioeconomic context. “Taking as its fundamental and sole criterion the average of the grades obtained by students in the context of the exam, it is reductive and cannot be compared”, defended the president of the Nationa…

Public schools in the majority of the ranking of those that exceed expectations the most. Higher averages are in the usual schools. Experts call for measures for those who struggle with the most difficulties.

‘We need more men to be teachers’, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says, with boys’ behaviour ‘the defining issue of our time’

Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes: After all the years of evidence of “man deserts”, chaotic families and single parent families being linked to gangs, knife crime, crime in general and the disintegration of life in “sink estates”, suddenly following a drama on TV – Adolescence – a feminist Labour minister thinks boys should have male role models at school and “at home”. “But only one in four of the teachers in our schools are men. Just on…