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MEDIA ARTICLES RELATING TO GUIDANCE
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TESS 26/08/2005
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Schools fail to give pupils a guiding light
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The results of a consultation with young people as part of the Scottish Executive’s “21st century social work review”, the first since the Social Work (Scotland) Act of 1968. The consultation was done at two workshops in Midlothian and South Ayrshire, involving 48 young people aged 11-15.
Download a summary of the findings >>
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TESS 04/03/2005
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Variations on guidance
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On the outcome from the Scottish Executive's review group on guidance, I am at a loss to understand the basis of its complaints about a previous "strait-jacket" or the educational rationale....
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TESS 28/01/2005
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Fresh start for careers guidance
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Another big idea from New Labour's early years is in trouble. Ministers plan to wind up Connexions, the careers advice and guidance service in England created in 2000 by David Blunkett as a one-stop shop.
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TESS 21/01/2005
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Guidance gap may threaten inclusion
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Elizabeth Buie wites that two of Scotland's leading experts on mainstreaming children with behavioural difficulties have backed the Scottish Executive's attempts to make inclusion work in the classroom, as it comes under increasing attack from unions and opposition politicians. But one of the academics, Dr Gwynnedd Lloyd, head of education studies at Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh University, has warned that the quality of pastoral care in secondary schools has suffered under the teachers' agreement.
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TESS 11/02/2005
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The place of guidance
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It is difficult to read this week's edition without being forced to acknowledge the often impossible job teachers have to do. The debates swirling around the Executive's inclusion policies.....
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TESS 26/11/2004
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The trouble with guidance posts
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One area where heads deserve to have more discretion is pupil support, says Douglas Osler, former chief HMI. A MUST READ article!
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TESS 17/10/ 2004
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Raising awareness will help the children
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An article about the difficultiews of fitting domestic abuse issues into the curriculum, including curriculum demands and lack of training for staff. "At the moment it sits in social education but loosely, between citizenship and bullying, and sometimes it's difficult to decide where you fit it in."
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TESS 28/11/2003
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Spanner thrown in job-size toolkit
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Neil Munro writes that one of Scotland's leading experts on job-sizing has condemned the exercise in schools as "incredible". Neil Paterson, director of the Hay Group consultancy, claims his company is the established market leader in job-sizing and accuses its rival PricewaterhouseCoopers, which carried out the exercise, of "fundamentally poor practice" in refusing to share the principles behind its scheme with those affected by it. The result, he says, is that the promoted staff involved do not understand what it takes to "win" under the new system or why they may have "lost out". He says the exercise was flawed.... overly complex, poorly understood and counter-productive.
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TESS 28/11/2003
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Job sizes should be made to measure
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Neil Paterson writes that it seems incredible that such a heavy sledgehammer has been used to crack a job-sizing nut....a real lack of transparency in how the system works in practice. This, in our opinion, has been a major design flaw.
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TESS 21/11/2003
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Bitter walkout from pay body
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Secondary heads and deputes have pulled out of the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT). The Headteachers' Association of Scotland (HAS) again fulminated against job-sizing and warned Peter Peacock, Education Minister, that his ambitions for schools could be undermined. Mr Peacock, however, dismissed any further review of the job-sizing toolkit. "There is no going back," he said.
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TESS 14/11/2003
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Study warns that drugs education is below par
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John Cairney writes that drugs education is "considerably below best practice" and will not cut the number of young users, according to a study of 12 secondaries in five authorities. The second annual conference of Scotland Against Drugs heard last week from Niamh Fitzgerald, health promotion training officer with Greater Glasgow NHS Board, that most schools had still not developed a written policy and programmes were poorly monitored and evaluated.
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TESS 03/10/2003
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Kids stand up for guidance staff
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Pupils in Inverclyde have unanimously vetoed the idea of every secondary teacher becoming a first-level guidance teacher.
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TESS 15/08/2003
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Smith should face EIS critics
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Neal McGowan, Rector of Banchory Academy writes: "Until recently I was wondering whether or not Ronnie Smith was looking after the interests of secondary staff - now I am convinced he is not. I was astonished to read his response last week to Rory Mackenzie's legitimate concerns (TESS, August 1)...."
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TESS 15/08/2003
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Lib Dems back guidance
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David Henderson writes that Principal teachers of guidance whose posts have been downgraded in the national job-sizing exercise are poised to win the unexpected support of the Liberal Democrat administration in Aberdeen.
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TESS 08/08/2003
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The same rule applies to everyone
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Ronnie Smith, General Secretary of the EIS writes about job-sizing and that "the EIS will, of course, receive and assess the full range of membership views which are communicated to it on this matter."
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TESS 08/08/2003
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Not fair, devalued, under-paid and over-paid
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Judith Gillespie writes: "As a mere parent, I view the various doom and gloom reports on the implementation of the McCrone deal with amazement. I first became an activist in education last century through the teachers' pay dispute of the mid-eighties."
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TESS 27/07/2003
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Guided to a loss of £5,000
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Many guidance teachers have found their posts devalued by up to £5,000, leaving them far behind principal teachers of specific subjects
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TESS 18/07/2003
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Winding down, and the bleat goes on
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Marj Adams, teacher of religious studies, philosophy and psychology at Forres Academy, writes "......As for our colleagues in guidance .... well, I appreciate why they now feel undervalued and demoralised. The powers-that-be can genuflect all they like about how it's the job that's sized and not the person but don't forget either that some people will, albeit in three years' time, take a massive cut in salary of several thousands of pounds. Who among us hasn't wondered about whether this is legal? It certainly isn't moral and I despise the secrecy element of the weightings which have allowed this......"
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TESS 11/07/2003
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The pendulum swings against secondary
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A primary teacher writes "Recently I have become aware of a strange new sensation. After spending more time than usual among secondary teachers, I am beginning to feel sorry for them."
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TESS
11/07/2003
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Job-sizing protest widens unions' gulf
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Neil Munro writes that the gulf between the two largest unions widened this week after the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association handed in a petition to the Scottish Executive protesting about the outcome of job-sizing for promoted staff, which has led to lower salaries for over two-thirds of promoted posts in secondary schools.
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Press and Journal 9/07/2003
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Angry teachers unite to voice anger over pay freezes
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Paul Gallagher writes that angry teachers will be voicing their outrage at the "job-sizing programme" which reassessed senior secondary teachers' pay on the basis of their answers to a 17-point questionnaire about their work.
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The Herald 9/07/2003
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Job-sizing brings angry response from teachers in promoted posts
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Elizabeth Buie writes that Scotland's second largest teaching union will today ask Peter Peacock, the education minister, to think again on job-sizing teachers in promoted posts after figures showed wide disparities between local authorities.
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TESS 4/07/2003
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New grading for guidance is unfair
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Graham Milne, AHT at Elgin Academy, writes about the job-sizing process as being "one of the most unfair and incompetent processes that could have been imposed on any profession at any time".
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TESS 27/06/2003
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Time to get smarter about pastoral care
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Loretta Scott, Adviser in Pastoral Care in Glasgow writes that Guidance has to face the reality of the teachers agreement and move on from a flawed structure.
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TESS 27/06/2003
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Teacher backlash as job-sizing hits home
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The impact of the job-sizing exercise on promoted posts finally hit home this week as nearly 16,000 staff were told what they were worth, sparking fury as confirmation emerged that most have had their job downsized.
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TESS 27/06/2003
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Size may be everything
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The controversy over teachers' job-sizing was as inevitable as the exercise was complex. It has all the necessary ingredients - inter-union rivalry, salary sensitivities, the pecking order among promoted staff, fierce pride in the job, workload and so on. Each of these can provoke enmities on its own, without the explosive combination provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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TESS 06/06/2003
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'Amateur hour' for the guidance service
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John Cairney writes that the shake-up of the guidance service following the post-McCrone settlement is taking schools back to the days of "the well-meaning amateur", according to an experienced adviser.
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Careers Scotland 02/05/2003
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Response to TES article
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Letter from the Director of Careers Scotland to Directors of Education in response to the article in the TESS (below)
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TESS 02/05/2003
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New careers service 'is failing schools'
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Neil Munro writes that some of Scotland's education authorities claim the new careers service is at risk of failing schools. In highly critical findings, a survey of 18 of the 32 authorities reveals deep misgivings about the direction of Careers Scotland
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TESS 25/04/2003
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Guidance rejig 'not insuperable'
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Difficulties with rejigging guidance systems in secondaries are "not insuperable", according to the joint Scottish Executive and local authority team set up to smooth the implementation of the post-McCrone deal. The Teachers' Agreement Communication (TAC) team, based at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities' headquarters in Edinburgh, has unearthed different approaches to guidance but with common themes.
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TESS 18/04/2003
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A fragmented guidance system just won't work
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Alex Edwardson, President of the Scottish Guidance Association writes: As was predicted at least a year ago, fragmentation of the guidance system in schools, still regarded as an essential support to our young people as they pass through the education system, seems the most likely outcome if 32 local authorities each formulate their own solutions. How can the different approaches in Glasgow, West Lothian and other authorities ensure that all pupils across Scotland are able to access consistency and quality in the personal, curricular and vocational support they are entitled to?
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Scotsman 2/04/2003
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All hail the lost teaching posts ... luckily their salaries will live on
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Hugh Reilly
writes about Operation Job-Sizing by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), which declared 62 per cent of headteachers are overpaid.
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TESS 21/03/2003
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Heads back counselling for children
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At the launch of a booklet on guidelines for counselling in Scotland, produced by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the leader of Scotland's secondary heads stated that professional counselling services for pupils should be available to schools, has declared as the Childline helpline service revealed that this is also a priority for young people.
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TESS 14/03/2003
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Misguided attack on Glasgow guidance deal
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Larry Flanagan, Chair of the teachers' side, Glasgow Local Negotiating Committee for Teachers writes: It was with some surprise that I read the article "Guidance on the cheap", and what you described as a "thinly disguised attack on the Educational Institute of Scotland" from Jim Docherty of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (TESS, February 28). This is not the work of specialist guidance staff. Indeed, we have a separate agreement concerning the work of principal teachers of guidance/pastoral care which clearly states that all management duties of previous assistant principal teachers of guidance must transfer to either existing PTs, with additional time, or to new PT posts.
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TESS 14/03/2003
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A tutoring for Glasgow
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There is nothing new after all. A principal reform in the 10-14 report was none other than first-level guidance by class teachers, managed by promoted guidance staff. Seventeen years on, Glasgow has agreed an identical post-McCrone system and has run into teacher opposition for introducing what turns out to be an educational relic
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TESS 14/03/2003
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Taking counsel
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The new guidelines on pupil counselling to be issued to all schools by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, revealed in The TES Scotland last week, are to be welcomed. That is the easy part and easy to say. Their timing is none the less impeccable as more and more pupils present troubled and troublesome challenges to teachers, at the very time when the guidance system is coming under fundamental pressure.
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TESS 07/03/2003
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No big bang for promoted posts
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"HASTENING slowly" has become the post-McCrone mantra in Dumfries and Galloway after an agreement not to introduce new management structures in secondaries for 18 months.
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TESS 07/03/2003
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Guidance revolt over EIS deal
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Eight guidance staff at Holyrood Secondary in Glasgow - one of the largest schools in Scotland - have publicly rebelled against their local negotiators in the Educational Institute of Scotland after a contentious pastoral care deal was agreed with the city council. Anita O'Hagan, an assistant principal teacher of guidance and group spokeswoman, describes the agreement as a "shabby treatment of staff and a scandalous waste of expertise and resources". The deal is said to show "scant regard" for the needs of children.
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TESS 07/03/2003
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How to call on a listening ear
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Kay Smith writes: Every school in Scotland is to be issued with guidelines advising how to use professional counselling services to handle difficult pupils. The guidelines are to be published next Tuesday in a booklet funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and produced by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which has received a rising number of enquiries from teachers and authorities.
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TESS 28/02/2003
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Own goals and the disappearing posts
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John Mitchell,headteacher of Kilsyth Academy, North Lanarkshire, writes I have recently been interviewing all the assistant principal teachers and senior teachers at Kilsyth Academy. The starting point of our discussions was the fact that from August they will no longer have the same jobs. Their posts disappear under the post-McCrone agreement. I was able to reassure each that their salary would be conserved.
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TESS 28/02/2003
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Guidance 'on the cheap'
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Glasgow's new model for pastoral care in secondaries is no more than "guidance on the cheap", the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association has warned. Jim Docherty, the union's assistant secretary said: "This is not a better standard of education for pupils. We totally oppose the Glasgow proposals which go well beyond what the vast majority of local authorities are proposing."
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TESS 21/02/2003
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City of good shepherds
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David Henderson writes that all class teachers in Glasgow secondaries will be expected from August to become your friendly, understanding and knowledgeable first-line pupil counsellor. Unions and the city have signed up to an agreement that is likely to set the pattern across the country.
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TES 21/02/2003
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Sex course accused of going too far
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A government-backed sex education course has been condemned as "morally irresponsible". The scheme aims to cut teenage pregnancies by getting under-16s to think about alternatives to penetrative intercourse, including oral sex.
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TESS 17/01/2003
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Guidance fears over axed posts
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Ministers have been urged not to make any changes to the structure of promoted posts in secondary schools until after the national review of guidance has reported in December. In a letter to Nicol Stephen, Deputy Education Minister, the Scottish Parent Teacher Council says it "makes no sense" to introduce the post-McCrone changes, which will see the disappearance of assistant principal teacher posts from August, before the guidance review is complete.
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TESS 10/01/2003
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Sex guidelines to play it safe
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David Henderson writes that contentious sex education packs are to be reviewed 18 months earlier than planned following pressure from MSPs and hardline churchmen.
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TESS 06/12/2002
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Many hands make help hard work
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John Mitchell, headteacher of Kilsyth Academy, North Lanarkshire, asks "How often are schools advised to deal with any problem involving children using a multi-agency approach? This recommendation seems to imply that the greater the number of agencies involved the better the outcome will be.....
.....At Kilsyth Academy our experience is that the more numerous the agencies involved the less co-ordinated the approach to resolving problems becomes.
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TES 29/11/2002
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Careers guidance now starts in nursery
An article in the English edition of the TES about career education in St John's Primary School in Sparkhill, Birmingham, for children from 7 years of age.
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TESS 22/11/2002
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The mythology that surrounds guidance
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A letter from Willie Hart, Secretary of the Glasgow Local Association of the EIS about whether or not "first-line guidance is now part of a teacher's contractual agreement".
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TESS 22/11/2002
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'Baffled' by pastoral shake-up
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David Henderson writes about the statement last week by the Education Minister as she stepped into the row about revised guidance structures under the post-McCrone agreement but left secondary heads with no more than an opaque vision of the future. Cathy Jamiesons first major intervention failed to offer a clear route for reorganising advice and support services to pupils. One head told her he was utterly baffled.
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TESS 15/11/2002
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Jamieson rules out reprieve for guidance posts
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Guidance duties in secondary will fall between between class teachers and the new principal teacher post, the Education Minister told secondary heads at their annual conference in St Andrews. She argued that the removal of APT guidance posts should not affect the service. She also sought to separate the forthcoming national review of guidance from its delivery.
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TESS 15/11/2002
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A caring approach
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Raymond Ross writes that, like it or not, the disappearance of assistant principal teacher posts next August is likely to herald the end of the guidance system in Scottish schools as we know it.
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TESS 08/11/2002
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Death on the doorstep
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Julie Morrice writes about the
SCRE booklet
Supporting Bereaved Young People. S
ee also
www.scre.ac.uk/bereavement
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TESS 08/11/2002
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Good grief guidance
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As an assistant principal teacher of Guidance at Govan High in Glasgow, Ali MacDonald has been struck by the positive attitude many young people have towards death and grief. Following the
SCRE pack
pilot and attendance at a loss and bereavement course, Govan High's five-strong guidance team has recently drafted a bereavement policy for the school.
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TESS 08/11/2002
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The shock of responsibility
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Archie Ferguson writes that as the fallout from McCrone rumbles on, it is somewhat disturbing to realise that the teaching profession is probably ill prepared for the forthcoming culture shocks with staff adjusting to differing responsibilities and shared ways of working.
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TESS 01/11/2002
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Heads hold back on new posts
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John Cairney writes that it was stated at a national conference in Airdrie that it is not realistic or reasonable to try to introduce new management structures into schools by August, a was warned this week. Gordon Mackenzie, immediate past president of the Headteachers Association of Scotland, demanded the retention of the vast majority of subject principal teachers and the jobs of assistant principal teachers of guidance, whose vanishing posts continue to concern secondary heads.
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TESS 25/10/2002
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Review rumbles on
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The Executive insists it is still committed to a
review of guidance
for primaries and secondaries to pick up the recommendations of the discipline task group. "The next stage will be to research good practice within and outwith Scotland and to consult further with stakeholders," a spokeswoman confirmed.
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TESS
25/10/2002
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EIS cries foul over guidance 'shambles'
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Secondary heads are increasingly concerned that they will face chaos in the new year because of attempts to reclassify guidance posts when councils have no money to upgrade experienced staff. They fear schools may be left with fewer staff to carry out essential guidance duties next August if the ranks of assistant principal teachers desert traditional support roles in favour of class teaching.
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TESS 25/10/2002
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Lost sheep
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Guidance in secondaries is in serious difficulty. A policy limbo rules and few are prepared to describe detailed future structures, including the Scottish Executive and teacher unions. That is hardly surprising when thousands of posts are at stake nationally.
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TESS 11/10/2002
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Who will defuse the time bomb when guidance ends
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Andrew Gallacher of Newton Mearns writes that hot on the heels of a deal that few will admit to having voted for, arising from a report by the McCrone committee that virtually ignored "guidance" and provided none, Glasgow City Council conducted a "best value" review on that very service. Those who recognised the euphemism "best value" to mean downsizing and cost-cutting took a sharp intake of breath.....
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TESS 20/09/2002
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The warp and weft of guidance
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Mike Hough, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Strathclyde, argues that the successful management and leadership of a guidance team in a secondary school requires a particular combination of talents, abilities and competences.
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TESS 27/09/2002
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Careers advice sticks to the wrong script
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An article about "Young People's Transitions: Careers Support from Family and Friends", by Sheila Semple, Cathy Howieson and Mary Paris. Published by the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University.
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TESS 27/09/2002
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Look around and heed good practice
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John Mitchell headteacher of Kilsyth Academy, North Lanarkshire, writes about visits to Birmingham and Paris. The following is an extract from the article:
"....One area of interest on both trips was the guidance provision for the children. In Paris two people, not necessarily teachers, worked full-time with the 1,200 students, doing what we would recognise as guidance work and organising links with other support agencies.
The system in Birmingham, and in most English cities, was to employ a small number of learning mentors (salary about £21,000). These people take on all of the counselling, social and problem-solving tasks that we expect guidance teachers to do. They are able to devote time to listening and discussion and setting up targets for improvement. They have very close links with heads of year and with social workers, community workers, health staff, the police and so on. They undertake attendance checks, make home visits, listen to a pupil's problem, train peer group mentors, form a first port of call for bullying incidents and provide a variety of information leaflets..."
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BBC News 18/09/2002
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Pupils 'stressed out' over school
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Over 90% of pupils suffer school-related stress with concerns about doing well topping the list, research suggests.
The survey appears to contradict stereotypical images of youngsters being concerned about being "cool" and getting involved with the opposite sex.
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TESS 23/08/2002
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Guidance system supports all pupils
The headline "Guidance fails care kids" (TESS, August 2) misrepresents the content of the article and does an injustice to those working in guidance in Scottish secondary schools (Letter from Mike Hough Senior lecturer Faculty of Education Strathclyde University
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TESS 02/08/2002
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Guidance fails care kids
David Henderson reports that childrens organisations have criticised the guidance system in secondary schools for failing the pupils who are most at risk.
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TESS
28/06/2002
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Guidance for students is 'vital', says GTC
It is "vital" that college students have better guidance, a report from the General Teaching Council for Scotland states. The report declares: "All learners should have access to timetabled guidance which should be an integral part of all courses."
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TESS 21/06/2002
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Don't hold back the dawn on guidance
The Executive has to give a lead to local authorities in overcoming the crisis that faces pastoral care, says David McLaren, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies at Strathclyde University.
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TESS 14/06/2002
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Guidance teachers take Executive to task
Members of the Scottish Guidance Association, given the chance to question one of the key figures in the post-McCrone negotiations at their annual conference last week, made the most of the opportunity
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Press and Journal 08/06/2002
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Classes in Citizenship to be held for youngsters aged three and over
Deputy Education Minister Nicol Stephen yesterday launched a new report, Education for Citizenship in Scotland, which will form the basis of a national framework. He was speaking at Kingswells School, Aberdeen.
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TESS 24/05/2002
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Shake-up of posts brings guidance crisis to a head
Neil Munro reports on mounting pressure to call a national forum on the running of a unique service. Leaders of Scotland's guidance teachers are demanding a national rescue plan to head off what they see as threats to their unique 30-year-old system of pupil support. The simmering disquiet among guidance staff, which will almost certainly surface at the annual conference of the Scottish Guidance Association, has led to a call from the association for a national forum to map out the future of the service.
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TESS 17/05/2002
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Guidance matters more than ever
Terry Ashton, Adviser (Guidance and Careers) in Aberdeen City, responds to Loretta Scott's article, "Next steps for guidance" (TESS, April 26) by noting that there was little reference to Guidance in the teachers' settlement, and guidance issues were all but ignored during the McCrone considerations. He writes that this is somewhat strange, given the social agenda of the Scottish Parliament. We are left with a situation where there is a danger of changes being made to get us out of the mess this has led to rather than because it is what would be best for our young people.
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TESS 17/05/2002
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Guidance could be key to success
Mike Hough, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Strathclyde, argues that the new continuing professional development framework offers an exciting and rewarding future for all those involved in guidance.
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TESS 26/04/2002
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Next steps for guidance
Loretta Scott, Adviser in Guidance in Glasgow, argues in favour of a national review of Guidance, but also that It is not just the structure but the infrastructure of guidance that is worthy of review. We have, she says, failed to resource guidance as a professional service.
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Edinburgh Evening News 4 Apr 2002
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Taking lessons in love
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A pioneering project for fifth and sixth-year pupils at James Gillespies school, Edinburgh is breaking down barriers. It is getting teenagers to open up, talk about self-esteem and insecurities, and how their parents relationship affects them. Teachers came to the conclusion that traditional sex and social education was not enough to meet the complicated needs of todays teenagers.
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TESS 22/03/2002
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Guidance under threat
Michael Hough, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Strathclyde University argues that until there is a universal system in every school across Scotland, it would be folly to dismantle the current system that was set up specifically to offer "more than feelings of concern" to school pupils?
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TESS
25/01/2002
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Guidance snub for job-based training
SCHOOLS have come under attack for failing to promote vocational choices for pupils. A review of modern apprenticeships for the Scottish Executive found that, while the experience of the scheme among young people and employers is entirely positive, guidance teachers showed "an almost complete ignorance".
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