Example sentences of "[noun sg] in teachers ['s] " in BNC.

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1 Education Secretary John Patten is also fighting off a cut in teachers ' pay and campaigning for his budget to push through education reforms and repair crumbling schools .
2 Parents in my constituency are anxious that teachers should be properly remunerated because teachers with low morale are bad teachers , and they are particularly concerned that there might just be a slight possibility of a Labour Government next year , with a resultant cut in teachers ' real pay , as happened when Labour was last in office .
3 This involves a difference in teachers ' perception of themselves and of other professionals .
4 While the Government are rightly pursuing the pay review body , which I believe and certainly hope will result in a substantial rise in teachers ' pay , they are simultaneously engaged — not before time — in asking serious questions about some of the methods used in our schools , most recently in primary schools .
5 They budgeted for a pay award in line with inflation and while welcoming the ‘ well deserved ’ rise in teachers ' salaries say they can not fund it without cutting school budgets .
6 Despite some evidence of change in teachers ' attitudes and behaviour , they themselves were reluctant to admit that the project had influenced them .
7 Not only are these changes demanding to implement , they are sources of doubt and concern in teachers ' minds .
8 One GRIST coordinator , whilst pointing to the need to develop a more sophisticated understanding in teachers ' responses to their INSET needs , exemplified the difficulties of arts education by quoting a survey carried out by one LEA into teachers ' views of their own INSET needs .
9 Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL .
10 Moreover , notwithstanding the different degrees to which individual teachers appeared to have taken on board the implications for progressive pedagogies , we believe that a substantial improvement in teachers ' awareness of the potential of the library as a central resource , and of the development of information-handling skills entailed therein , was a real consequence of the project in this school .
11 In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job .
12 I would contend that the scapegoating of the education system , in general , and of certain local authorities , in particular , has acted as a diversionary tactic for the inadequacies of central government responses to the funding of the state education system , their failure to stem the spiralling decline in teachers ' morale and the pitiful attempt to provide real job opportunities for school leavers .
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