Example sentences of "teachers ' " in BNC.

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1 Phrases such as striving for the setting up of a ‘ Workers ’ republic' and the establishment of ‘ public ownership ’ were excised , as they were seen by the members of an affiliated teachers ' union , and ultimately by the bishops , to counter church doctrine ( Whyte 1980 : 82–4 ; Keogh 1982 : 7 , 77 n.5 ) .
2 The teachers ' union even submitted the draft constitution to the bishops so as to get it right .
3 From 1899 , the intention of the clergy to assume and maintain absolute control of their schools led a number of them to refuse to appoint members of the Irish National Teachers ' Organization so as to avoid trade union interference .
4 Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day .
5 HARD-PRESSED inner city comprehensive schools are likely to lose thousands of pounds a year under government plans to devolve financial management to heads , one of the largest teachers ' unions warns today .
6 Mike Loosley , general secretary of the Inner London Teachers ' Association - the area union branch — said yesterday : ‘ There 's no getting away from the fact that a child sent home on a particular day as a result of our action will be suffering .
7 A SCHEME for appraising teachers ' performance is being delayed because they are overloaded with extra work for the national curriculum and school budgets , writes Ngaio Crequer .
8 Rumour and uncertainty abound , suggesting , this week , that pupils ' achievements will be measured by formal test rather than by their teachers ' assessment .
9 TEACHERS ' UNIONS are advising their members to boycott appraisal schemes set up by schools and local authorities .
10 The scheme , drawn up after pilot projects by a steering group under Duncan Graham , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , had the support of all the teachers ' and heads ' unions as well as the local authority employers .
11 It was designed to focus appraisal on teachers ' needs for in-service training and other forms of support .
12 The unions also fear that Mr MacGregor wants to link appraisal more closely to teachers ' salary levels , thus creating a merit pay system .
13 I suspect that other considerations are in Mr MacGregor 's mind : appraisal would require the equivalent of an extra 1,828 full-time teachers , according to the steering group , and a total cost of £36-£40m — or 0.5 per cent of the annual teachers ' salary bill .
14 In future , no doubt , interviewers will look at test scores attained by teachers ' pupils and every school governing body will have a statistician capable of producing appropriate graphs .
15 The teachers ' public image had been badly damaged by the ‘ posturings of a few ’ in the strikes two years ago .
16 Born in 1888 of working-class parents in Belopole , a small Ukrainian town , he had graduated from the Poltava Teachers ' Institute in 1917 with a gold medal .
17 It was increasingly difficult for the government to rely on popular hostility towards the teachers ' unions in getting through what many saw as a direct attack on quality in the schools .
18 The structure of primary education in Britain is implicitly racist — in the books used , the curriculum , the teachers ' attitudes .
19 No sooner had the Minister of Education , Lionel Jospin , stated that the scarves could not be a motive for excluding the girls from school than the teachers ' union , traditionally close to the Socialist Party , called him a traitor and 50 of his deputies signed a petition publicly disaffiliating themselves from his line and asking for his resignation .
20 Tuesday : Criminal Justice ( International Co-operation ) Bill , second reading ; Contracts ( Applicable Law ) Bill , second reading ; Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act 1987 ( Continuation ) Order ; Medicines ( Intermediate Medicated Feeding Stuffs ) Order ; debate on the disbandment of the COI 's photographic library .
21 Now that she 's working , I 'm left with all the swotty types , the brainboxes , and there 's no one to giggle with about motorbikes and Mr Clarke 's hideous dress sense , and the teachers ' ‘ uniform ’ of one collar tucked in a jumper , the other sticking out .
22 A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience .
23 Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike .
24 Mr Smith blamed local authorities for changing the formulae by which budgets were calculated and blamed the Government for capping council spending and insisting that schools should be funded on the basis of the local average of teachers ' salaries rather than the actual salaries they paid .
25 Over the medium term , however , the new Teachers ' Pay Review Body is likely to make teaching markedly better paid — nearly half of all secondary school teachers now earn more than £20,000 a year — which will take much wind out of the NUT 's sails .
26 Also available is a discovery pack as well as teachers ' packs and worksheets for children of various ages .
27 This pessimism may have some truth given the present management approach within our schools but it is suggested here that if that managerial frame of reference was itself to be radically re-oriented , then teachers ' perceptions of their own professionality would also be powerfully affected and they may indeed come to feel that effective classroom activity was positively related to their performance in the wider school context .
28 The school , therefore , has in its budget funds for teachers ' salaries and other staffing costs , equipment and books , heating and lighting , rates , examination fees and all internal maintenance associated with normal ‘ wear and tear ’ .
29 We have created an independent Teachers ' Pay Review Body .
30 We supported the introduction of the Teachers ' Pay Review Body and believe it will ensure that teachers are properly rewarded .
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