Cribsheet 27.01.11

The education bill that starts its journey through the Commons today aims to entice other professionals into teaching. So the Guardian's education editor, Jeevan Vasagar, has decided the test out his teaching skills on a class of 10- and 11-year-olds at Canberra primary school in west London. And it's all on video . The bill gives heads the final say on whether to expel a pupil from their school , among many other reforms. At the moment, parents can appeal against a head's decision and, if successful, overturn it. Other changes contained in the bill give teachers new rights to search pupils for forbidden items, such as pornography, phones, alcohol and video cameras, and removes the need for teachers to have to give a day's notice of a detention. The bill also protects teachers who face allegations of inappropriate behaviour from pupils, giving them anonymity until charged. We have the reaction of a teacher who was cleared of allegations of violence against a child. 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More education news from the Guardian • Police could be forced to adopt more extreme tactics to counter the threat posed by student protesters, says Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers. In the run-up to this weekend's big protests, Orde admitted that the use of text messages, Twitter and Facebook to organise campaigns at record speed had created "a whole new dimension to public order". On Saturday, student groups in London and Manchester will protest against the abolition of the education maintenance allowance. • A poll shows only a third of state schools teach the majority of their pupils a foreign language , while almost all private schools do. The National Centre for Languages warns schools that to deprive children of a foreign language is to stunt their life chances. • A fifth of recent graduates are unemployed – the highest proportion for more than a decade. Between July and September last year, 20% of new graduates were out of work, the Office for National Statistics said. This means the proportion of recent graduates who are unemployed has almost doubled since the start of the recession in 2008. • The University of East Anglia has made public the letters of JD Salinger - and what a revelation they've turned out to be. Widely thought of as a recluse for the last 50 years of his life, letters to a friend in Britain show that while he may have shunned the limelight, he enjoyed a simpler life of gardening, eating hamburgers and following the tennis career of Tim Henman. What's more, he went on group bus trips to Niagara Falls and regularly indulged a passion for the theatre. Education news from around the web • Mike Baker gives a useful rundown of the education bill on his blog. • Children and Young People Now says 41% of teachers are concerned about proposals to give school staff more power to search pupils, according to a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has found. They fear a negative impact on relationships with pupils. (Thanks to @schoolsontap .) • Francis Gilbert, of the Local Schools Network ( @localschools_uk ), has analysed the 2009-2010 GCSE results and shown that poverty is still very strongly connected with low academic attainment. • An expansion of the government's flagship academies programme risks placing a serious strain on the public purse , MPs warn. One in 20 academies opened under Labour ran up a deficit last year and more than a quarter needed help to "secure their longer-term financial health", the Telegraph reports. • The BBC has video of clashes during a demonstration in Leeds against the scrapping of the EMA. A student has claimed she was hit without warning by a policeman. Views on the web Writing for the NAHT, @warwickmansell is fed up with all the petty politicking around the drawing up of a new national curriculum: "The launch last week of another review of the national curriculum would, in a more considered and rational world, be the occasion to open a process of deep reflection about what counts to be educated in the modern world, and about the balance between central direction and local discretion over what should be taught." But instead, this important debate gets sidelined by stereotyping and point-scoring, or what Mansell calls: "the predictable Punch-and-Judy fight between "traditionalists" (caricatured as in favour only, it seems, of children endlessly reciting names of countries, cities, rivers and great figures from Britain's history) and "trendies" (written off as believing children need learn no facts at school)." SecEd has spoken to headteachers about the review - most of whom say they find Michael Gove's prescriptions "baffling" or "flawed". Live Q&A: teaching as a career A panel of teachers and education experts will be giving advice about moving into teaching and discussing prospects for the profession. Insight into journalism seminars for teachers A unique opportunity for teachers to spend a day at the Guardian, find out how a national news media organisation works and get ideas and resources that can be used in the classroom. News 11 March Learn about the 24 news cycle; meet news reporters, feature writers, picture and sub editors; understand the role newspaper advertising; go on a tour of the editorial floors and take part in a workshop creating you own news front page which will be evaluated by an editor. Multimedia 31 March Writing for a news website, web editing, blogging, the use of social media, video production; podcasting. Places are limited and likely to fill up quickly, so book soon. Competition Children aged between seven and 14 can now enter the Young Human Rights reporter of the year competition , run by learnnewsdesk, the Guardian's online news service for schools, and Amnesty International. A winner and two runners-up in the primary and secondary school categories will win a trip to Amnesty International and the Guardian headquarters in London as well as an MP3 recorder. The closing date for entries is 14 February. 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