SOME teachers will spend two days a week helping line up future jobs for pupils. They will set up links with local firms and fix up apprenticeships for youngsters struggling to get work. Schools Secretary Ed Balls will announce the pounds 400,000 scheme for 15 teachers a year at today's TUC.

MOVES to formalise nursery education across England could deny toddlers freedom to play, teachers say. Experts in education and child psychology have expressed concerns over the new "early years foundation stage" curriculum for nurseries and children's centres.

Growing numbers of children turn up to school tired and badly behaved because they are over-indulged at home, teachers warned today.

CHINESE children are twice as likely as other pupils to be seen as bright by their teachers, new figures show.

TEACHERS were today given the power to hand their pupils weekend detentions using tough new laws aimed at cracking down on worsening bad behaviour. Evening and Saturday detentions are included in a raft of sanctions which allow teachers to tackle problem children both in and outside school.