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Saturday, 21st November 2009

Hugh Reilly

Hugh Reilly: You'd think staff rooms were full of Aristotle-mad Luddites IF ONE were to believe the hype, a new breed of teacher is required to deliver the Curriculum for Excellence.

Hugh Reilly: Who do you think you are kidding Mr Wilkinson? PERMISSION to speak, Sir! In the TV comedy series, Dad's Army, the nation guffawed when Private Frazer, the eternal pessimist, pronounced: "We're all doomed, doomed!"

Hugh Reilly: School skippers have a tough role – but most kids are a joy THE crew aboard HMS Bounty had it easy. For the matelots, life on the ocean wave had its origin in leaving the pub after a heavy drinking session and being headhunted by the Royal Navy's human resources department, ie: the press gang.

Hugh Reilly: Staffroom's elders jump at chance of early retirement I AM 53 years old but if one looks at my photograph alongside this column, one could be forgiven for thinking the years have been kind to me.

Hugh Reilly: 'I didn't see a turtle, but I see shellsuited animals every day'

Hugh Reilly: It may be a long shot but I think Scots teenagers are a good bet for democracy

Hugh Reilly: A straight answer to the knotty problem posed by the It girls

Hugh Reilly: Bumbling bee will turn classroom into a hive of activity

Hugh Reilly: New teachers face a merry-go-round of short-term contracts

Hugh Reilly: Teachers must learn to live with pay rise agreed for next year

Hugh Reilly: Director's cut is the deepest to bit-part classroom wranglers

Hugh Reilly: New term, same old torment of in-service training for battle

Hugh Reilly From Sir to spook, as teachers learn to spy another day

Hugh Reilly: Teacher scrappage scheme a way out on road to retirement

Hugh Reilly: Outside the bubble, now is not the time for industrial action

Hugh Reilly: We don't need wee drawings to put our pupils in the picture

Hugh Reilly: More pay and longer holidays … so, can I count on your vote?

Hugh Reilly: Tie-break question: should pupils still be told to get knotted?

Hugh Reilly: Teachers make hay in May, for all too soon it will be June

Hugh Reilly: Why teachers are glad of their hard-earned immune systems

A class act: Sorry, Liz, but you're the one dreaming a dream if you think it's that simple

Hugh Reilly: So it's no break for me – and it's no break for them

Hugh Reilly: Model teacher Tasha just doesn't deserve this dressing down

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