France to impose total ban on mobile phones in schools
France is to impose a total ban on pupils using mobile phones in primary and secondary schools starting in September 2018, its education minister has confirmed.
Phones are already forbidden in French classrooms but starting next school year, pupils will be barred from taking them out at breaks, lunch times and between lessons.
Teachers and parents are divided over a total ban, however, with some saying children must be able to “live in their time”. In France, some 93 per cent of 12 to 17-year-olds own mobile phones.
Source : Telegraph
SNOW vs Schools…
Hundreds of schools across England and Wales have closed due to snowy weather.
More than 400 schools are shut in Wales. And in Birmingham, the city council has closed all of the schools it runs.
Hundreds more have closed in counties across huge swathes of central England as snow continues to fall.
So has it become easier to close a school?
The short answer is no. There has not been any change in the rules governing school closures.
The guidelines from the education departments in England and Wales are clear. They stress schools can close only in truly exceptional circumstances, when there is no other option.
This is because schools have to be open a set number of days a year.
However, there are no systematic central records held on how many school days are lost to poor weather each year.
Source : BBC
TSC deregisters teachers for negligence, having sex with students
The Teachers Service Commission has banned more than 41 teachers from working over misconduct.
Chief executive Nancy Macharia said the deregistered teachers will not be allowed to teach in any school in Kenya – whether it is public or private.
DEREGISTERED
Forty of the banned teachers are male.
Reasons given for their deregistration range from desertion of duty, having sexual relationships with students, insubordination, negligence, exam cheating and embezzlement.
Source :Nation