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New guidelines to give teaching assistants a fair deal

School support staff will soon benefit from a raft of new guidelines due to be introduced next month.

Introduced to ensure that a good deal for teaching assistants is achieved, the regulation includes provisions about a fair wage and teaching hours, reports the Times Educat...
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Young apprentices to train as teaching assistants

The government has proposed a new scheme that would see young people receive in-classroom training to becoming teaching assistants.

Under the plans, all of the UK's primary schools would receive an apprentice aged between 16 and 18 who is working towards becoming an assistant.

It is hoped that this will offer te...
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Teaching assistants trained to help shy pupils

A new programme has been devised to aid the teaching of less confident pupils.

Shy children aged six and seven can now take part in special sessions to help bring them out of their shell, thanks to a scheme devised by the National Education Trust (NET), reports the BBC.
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Demand growing for teaching assistants in Edinburgh

Scotland's capital is experiencing an increasing demand for teaching assistants with the growing number of foreign pupils studying at its schools.

Edinburgh is struggling to deal with the huge increase in overseas children, with an insufficient number of language assistants to support them, reports the Scotsman.

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