Report April 2012

ATL president Alice Robinson

Welcome

ATL's president Alice Robinson looks ahead to Conference, and at the issues covered in the April 2012 edition of Report

Features

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Academies: behind the rhetoric

The answer to England's failing schools or expensive and unnecessary exam factories? Report looks into what is really happening in academies

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Rep awards: the winners

ATL and AMiE's outstanding reps of the year talk about what the role means to them. Words by Alex Tomlin

Help and advice

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Employment tribunals: all change

Significant changes to employment tribunal proceedings will have to be considered by employees looking to make a claim, explains ATL solicitor Kehinde Adeogun

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Martin Johnson, deputy general secretary

For profit? No sale

Arguments in favour of running schools for profit are weak and full of holes, explains ATL deputy general secretary Martin Johnson

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Ideas in the mist

Dyslexia can be a positive experience, says children's television presenter Cerrie Burnell, on her experiences of learning to read and write

Northern Ireland

Some mitigating factors may soften the blow of redundancy in Northern Ireland, says ATL NI director Mark Langhammer

Scotland

Keith Robson, ATL national official for Scotland, is looking forward to ATL's Annual Conference in Manchester

Wales

ATL is the moderate voice of reason in the education debate, says Alec Clark, ATL Cymru president

Report April 2012 - front cover

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