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

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1 ‘ These ratings should be a shining beacon to the Government to support research and cease their rob Peter to pay Paul policies , ’ said an Association of University Teachers ' spokesman .
2 … a golden age of pupil behaviour when children attended with regularity and did their teachers ' bidding without question … may have existed .
3 … neglect of the occupational culture of teachers … has led us to underestimate the significance of the teachers ' culture as a medium through which many innovations and reforms must pass ; yet in that passage they frequently become shaped , transformed or resisted in ways that were unintended and unanticipated .
4 IT is unfortunate that NASUWT , the career teachers ' organisation , should be banging on about quality in education in a leaflet just issued .
5 Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school .
6 When the academies opened their doors to women in 1919 the association changed its curriculum to offer preparatory courses , the drawing teachers ' course was closed and for a while they placed emphasis on the trade-oriented forms , like book-binding which was also started later at the state school .
7 The unions also fear that Mr MacGregor wants to link appraisal more closely to teachers ' salary levels , thus creating a merit pay system .
8 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 .
9 It could be handled as a problem of vital statistics , housing administration , minimum wage legislation , child nutrition , national insurance , teachers ' salary scales , coal mining economics , feminism , social philosophy or pure finance ’ ( Stocks , 1949 , p. 102 ) .
10 Unrest in the education system , prompted by arrears in teachers ' salary payments , led to clashes with police in late May 1990 .
11 Three point three has been rather involved er aspects of examining average teachers ' salary costs basically will fall down given that we 've had a sixty five percent return from schools and we will be able to use this year , coming year the actual mandatory points in determining how delegation of salaries should be proceeded with .
12 All sorts of reasons were advanced , including language barriers , teachers ' racism , biased curricula , deprived homes , inadequate material conditions and , most pejorative of all , lack of intellectual equipment .
13 Rumour and uncertainty abound , suggesting , this week , that pupils ' achievements will be measured by formal test rather than by their teachers ' assessment .
14 I have little doubt that , if it is broadly accepted by the Secretary of State and then implemented through the work of the subject working groups , teachers ' assessment skills will be vastly improved .
15 I believe that this is absolutely vital , not only for teachers ' sanity , but also for the health of the education system as a whole .
16 Mr Lang talks about reviving the priority given to literacy and numeracy , about restoring teachers ' standing in the community , about discipline , pride , respect .
17 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 ) .
18 The teachers ' union even submitted the draft constitution to the bishops so as to get it right .
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 It is likely to face stiff opposition from trade unions , including the teachers ' union , if it does so .
21 A fifteen-day teachers ' strike in September 1989 , supported by other workers , reflected some of these economic and professional concerns , though the Costa Rican teachers ' union is not considered militant .
22 An important factor in the advances achieved in education was the ability to mobilize people through organizations under the Sandinista umbrella : trade unions , including the teachers ' union , ANDEN ; women 's organizations ; co-operatives ; and peasants ' organizations .
23 Teachers ' union officials admit that many teachers earn more from private tutoring than from their official jobs .
24 One effect , according to Guillermo Martinez of the teachers ' union ANDEN , was to overburden classes ,
25 Many teachers belonging to the teachers ' union ANDES became actively involved in the struggle for political justice as well as for their own economic interests .
26 The vast majority of these incomplete schools are in rural areas where classes are also large — the teachers ' union COLPROSUMAH claims that in some rural schools there are up to 120 children in a classroom .
27 A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines .
28 The teachers ' union NASUWT said : ‘ Some schools would n't stay open if they had to meet safety standards in other industries . ’
29 A BAN on classes with more than 30 children was demanded last night by the Tories ' favourite teachers ' union .
30 Head teachers decided to obstruct school performance league tables ; a second teachers ' union voted to boycott the national curriculum tests ; and Lord Skidelsky , a Tory member of the council which sets the tests , resigned .
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