Teachers and lecturers work more unpaid overtime than any other profession, according to data published today by the Trades Union Congress. They give �215.06 worth of free work each week to their pupils - as I used to see it - or to their employers, as the TUC sees it.   more »

The Guardian has the best education news coverage, but is incorrigibly spin-ridden. It apparently cannot report facts without the 'angle' it chooses dominating the whole report. I have therefore selected from a few paragraphs of today's news on falling numbers of language students, omitting the axe-grinding.   more »