by Tim Miles Education Correspondent
Education Secretary Estelle Morris warned today she
would "fight and defeat" opposition to reform of teaching.
Teachers' leaders have reacted with alarm to proposals
that classroom assistants should supervise children to give
teachers more time for other duties. Nigel de Gruchy of
the NASUWT teaching union said "cheap labour" was no
solution to the recruitment crisis.
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profession, was expected to say she was "willing to fight
and defeat opposition to reform, noatter how well
intentioned it may be".
Her speech is the start of intense negotiations against the
ever-present threat of further industrial action. The
Government has rejected teachers' demands for a 35-hour
working week. Why school is like Big Brother
Abi Newman
09/11/2001
Birmingham's assistant director of special educational needs, Sonia Sharp, is familiar with
childish behaviour. She was one of three
psychologists who commented on the contestants
during this summer's Big Brother show.
The show's producers brought her in because they
were concerned about teacher Penny Ellis being
bullied in the house.
Ms Sharp believes the benign authoritarian presence
of Big Brother is similar to that of a headteacher. Such
night uld explain why she sped through the
National Professional Qualification for Headship
training in four months instead of the maximum two
years.
In the 1980s, Ms Shap, 40, taught English and
drama at a primary, a secondary and a special
educational needs school.
The deadline for applications for the autumn round of
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Education Secretary Estelle Morris warned today she would
"fight and defeat" opposition to reform of teaching.
Teachers' leaders have reacted with alarm to proposals that classroom assistants should supervise children to give teachers more time for other duties. Nigel de Gruchy of the NASUWT teaching union said "cheap labour" was no solution to the recruitment crisis.
But Ms Morris, setting out a 10-year vision for the
profession, was expected to say she was "willing to fight
and defeat opposition to reform, no matter how well intentioned it may be".
Her speech is the start of intense negotiations against the
ever-present threat of further industrial action. The Government has rejected teachers' demands for a 35-hour working week.
Her speech is the start of intense negotiations against the
ever-present threat of further industrial action. The Government has rejected teachers' demands for a 35-hour working week.
Her speech is the start of intense negotiations against the
ever-present threat of further industrial action. The Government has rejected teachers' demands for a 35-hour working week.
Her speech is the start of intense negotiations against the
ever-present threat of further industrial action. The Government has rejected teachers' demands for a 35-hour working week.

Morris: I'll beat rebel teachers
by Tim Miles Education Correspondent
"fight and defeat" opposition to reform of teaching.
Teachers' leaders have reacted with alarm to proposals that
classroom assistants should supervise children to give
teachers more time for other duties. Nigel de Gruchy of the
NASUWT teaching union said "cheap labour" was no
solution to the recruitment crisis.
But Ms Morris, setting out a 10-year vision for the
profession, was expected to say she was "willing to fight
and defeat opposition to reform, no matter how well
intentioned it may be".
Her speech is the start of intense negotiations against the
ever-present threat of further industrial action. The
Government has rejected teachers' demands for a 35-hour
working week.
"fight and defeat" opposition to reform of teaching.
Teachers' leaders have reacted with alarm to proposals that
classroom assistants should supervise children to give
teachers more time for other duties. Nigel de Gruchy of the
NASUWT teaching union said "cheap labour" was no
solution to the recruitment crisis.
But Ms Morris, setting out a 10-year vision for the
profession, was expected to say she was "willing to fight
and defeat opposition to reform, no matter how well
intentioned it may be".
Her speech is the start of intense negotiations against the
ever-present threat of further industrial action. The
Government has rejected teachers' demands for a 35-hour
working week.

EDUCATION
Morris: I’ll beat rebel teachers
By Time Miles Education Correspondent
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Bill Gates hopes his new slate-like computers will revolutionise the
market, writes Jack Schofield
Jack Schofield in Las Vegas
Monday November 12, 2001
Microsoft's latest and greatest inventions
are pen and ink, to judge by Bill Gates's
keynote speech opening the Comdex
computer trade show in Las Vegas last
night.
The co-founder and chairman of the
world's biggest software company
presented a futuristic vision of people
sending handwritten messages to one
another.
However, rather than using low-tech
scraps of paper and ball-point pens, Mr
Gates's vision involves the use of
high-powered slate-like computers running
a new version of the company's new XP
operating system, Windows XP Tablet PC
edition.
Mr Gates introduced the concept of the
Tablet PC during his keynote speech in
the same MGM Grand Garden Arena at
last year's Comdex.
This time, however, there were prototype
systems on show. Compaq Computer,
Taiwan's Acer and Tatung, plus Japan's
Fujitsu, NEC and Toshiba are among the
manufacturers developing Tablet PCs,
which are expected to go on sale around
this time next year.
"I'm already using a Tablet PC as my
everyday computer," said Mr Gates. "It's a
PC that is virtually without limits - and
within five years, I predict that it will be the
most popular form of PC sold in America."
Most companies that have developed
computers for handwritten input convert
the user's handwriting into text. In
Microsoft's design, the handwriting
recognition is done in the background,
while the handwritten text is left as it is.
The difference between real ink and "rich
digital ink" is that the computer-based
version can be edited, searched, sent as
email, and generally manipulated the
same way as word processed text.
The main advantages of the Tablet PC are
that it is portable, so it can be used
almost anywhere, and that it can be used
by large numbers of people who cannot
type.
This could broaden the market for
personal computers. However, what may
be more important to the PC industry is
that the Tablet PC provides manufacturers
with a new gizmo to sell to existing users
at a time when sales of desktop PCs are
in decline.
As well as showing off Tablet PCs to an
enthusiastic audience of more than
10,000, Gates helped with a
demonstration of the Xbox games
console, which is also based on some of
the NT (New Technology) Windows code
used in XP.
According to Mr Gates, Microsoft has so
far sold more than 7m copies of Windows
XP, which is three times as many as
Windows 95 in the same period.
Mr Gates said he was having a
memorable week with the keynote
speech, his guest appearance on the
Frasier television series, the US launch of
the Xbox on Thursday, and the release of
the Harry Potter film on Friday.
"I want to go on record," said Gates, "that
I was dressing that way before Harry
Potter was born."
· Jack Schofield is the Guardian's
computer editor.
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