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Expensive pensions: the moment of truth

Keep your pressed middle: all are working in a school learn today how much extra they 're going to be expected that they cough in pension contributions. Details will be announced later, but figures leaked to the Telegraph:

"Ministers will announce that 750,000 of the lowest paid public sector workers will face no increased contribution. But the remainder of the 5 million staff in pension schemes will be asked to pay more, with the highest earners hardest hit.

In the first year, the highest paid earn 40,000 public sector employees, considerably more than £ 100,000, £ 284 will pay each month - £ 3,400 per year - more for their final salary schemes, the figures show. A doctor on £ 100,000 a year pays nearly £ 2,000 more per year, and teachers £ 1,752 £ 2,100 officials.

In the £ 50,000 bracket, this works in the NHS to pay £ 768 extra per year are; Teachers £ 696 and £ 684 officials, ministers say. Anyone on a £ 35,000 salary face paying an extra £ 516 per year. Those earning £ 21,000 a year pay £ 108 per year more. "

Nasuwt 's Chris Keates (@ Chris_K_Nasuwt) says:

"It is extremely unfair that teachers and other public sector workers - who are already facing an imposed pay freeze, increases in VAT and national insurance and increases in the cost of living - is charged with something that is in fact an additional tax to face a financial crisis they have created themselves. "

Education News from the Guardian

. Deputies say the Ebacc, one of Michael Gove 's flagship education reforms have significant weaknesses and there is no evidence that it improves the prospects for disadvantaged students.

An education committee inquiry that requires knowledge gained from more than 360 teachers and researchers and educators to rethink:

"The Committee supports \ the government's stated intention to improve the achievement of the poorest young people. But the evidence unclear whether the more disadvantaged students for entry Ebacc issues would inevitably be a significant contribution to this goal."

Here 's the whole report.

. Liam Burns (@ NUS_Liam), NUS President-elect said, why do not the policy of free tuition for poor students isn 't work.

"Fee waivers are an elaborate hoax, the prospect of waves of smaller debts with one hand while gently palming reduce any prospect of further investment in the students themselves about the other. What they actually do, the amount of subsidy to the Treasury ' s books, without actually reducing the amount paid most of the graduates returned. "

. I 've just noticed that our colleagues are in a brilliant film series called Reel story in which they rate movies on how historically accurate. What a blessing to have both teachers and students! Today they are 're assessing Kenneth Branagh' s Henry V, which give them a C + for history and a whopping A for entertainment.

. Support for the EMA comes from an unexpected quarter: hip-hop wannabe Cher Lloyd. According to Alex Macpherson, Lloyd (@ CherLloyd) a former recipient of the education maintenance allowance and is horrified to learn that the government has abolished:

"I was living away, and it was ridiculous really important for many kids in school. It 'sa thing to do."

Education news from around the web

. The New Statesman 's George Eaton (@ georgeeaton) attacks yesterday' s coverage of Gove 's numerous conversations with Rupert Murdoch and associates it with reports that News Corp is free on our own schools:

"It 's not hard to see why the company is interested, especially if [free] schools finally permitted to make a profit. But, to coin a phrase, News Corp. would really as a' fit and proper "Company, to run a school? "

. More than 200 state secondary schools have ditched the benefit of the International GCSE GCSE coursework and prohibitions based on end-of-year test, tells Richard Garner of the Independent us. Interest in the IGCSE has doubled in the past year, and there 's with 50% in the number of schools opting for the Cambridge Pre-U, a more traditional alternative to A-levels.

. Hundreds of funded PhD and Master's jobs have been cut, the BBC reported, quoting figures given in answer to a parliamentary question from shadow universities minister Gareth Thomas.

. More students should be able from England to study abroad, says the universities minister, David Willetts. It should be easier to obtain for English students to credit toward their degree while studying abroad and it should be "enhanced mutual recognition" of qualifications between countries.

. Interesting bit audio on the Today program on Radio 4, study claims that some children do not know their own names when they arrive at school. Reporter Sanchia Berg talks to Neil Wilson, executive head of a group of schools in South Manchester, the problem of "more widespread than we give it credit for" says. In the meantime, a study suggests that IVF children have a larger vocabulary than unplanned babies.

. A photography student, has revealed his lucky escape - an impromptu assignment made him leave Norway 's Utoya island 24 hours before their massacre, he' s told the Liverpool Daily Post. Vegard Grott, 21, a journalism student at Liverpool John Moores University, had worked as a freelance photographer on the small island in his home country of Norway on the day before Anders Breivik gunman opened fire on a political youth camp.

. Find something to do with the kids? Red Ted sort (@ RedTedArt) makes for a very natty salt dough bead chains and teaching a bit of color theory on the page.

. The DAS is a roundup of the student test Schnitzer announce a winner next week: Eileen Reid, at the Glasgow School of Art, marks an essay on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Professor Nobel Savage" means.

. A love called icould to help young people to want to meet career paths, has a series of films about the options in the music industry with Jessie J 's choreographer, Coldplay' s label president and Marius Mueller-Westernhagen ' HOWTO publicist.

On the Guardian Higher Education Network

. Aaron Porter 's First or Fail: This week, Aaron Porter examines the unpopular, and potentially very expensive, reforms, international student numbers and academic support for the Olympic Games in 2012 will limit.

. Live chat: working abroad in the field of higher education. HE academics and expatriates will tell us about life in the industry overseas. Join the Live Chat Friday 29 July at 1pm.

Tell the guard about your school 's A-level and GCSE achievements

The Guardian would like to highlight your students 'GCSE and A-level success this summer. We ask the schools to make a few brief questions about their students 'results as soon as you get them to respond - on 18 August for A-levels and 25 August for GCSEs. Please take note of the following web pages and return to them to fill in your results on these days:

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We want to tell our readers, have your students performed as well and look forward to the mapping of the success of young people across the country.

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