Quiz

  1. Labour boasts about their success in reducing class sizes. In a recent OECD league table of pupil-teacher ratios in 21 developed countries, what positions was the UK in?

    1. 5th
    2. 9th
    3. 14th
    4. 18th
    5. Every teacher knows the effects of poverty on the children we teach, yet in a recent UN report, which of these countries had the worst figures for child poverty?
    6. Britain
    7. Hungary
    8. Turkey
    9. Poland
    10. The government is spending £40 million on the administration of the new system of PRP - but how much of that is going to the home of the assessors, Cambridge Education Associates?
    11. £12 million
    12. £16 million
    13. £20 million
    14. £24 million
    15. From April the starting salary of a good honours graduate in teaching goes up to £17,000 - still around £1800 less than in other graduate professions. Five years after graduating, pay increases to just over £22,000. How much could a graduate in other sectors expect to be earning by then?
    16. £25,000
    17. £29,000
    18. £33,000
    19. £37,000
    20. Out of the 11 Fresh Start schools - launched at the expense of staff jobs and pupils' education - in how many schools did GCSE results improve?
    21. 0
    22. 1
    23. 3
    24. 5
    25. In anticipation of PRP, the number of 'optional' tests for 8,9 and 10 year olds in English, Maths and Science shot up from 1999 to 2000 - but by how much?
    26. 5%
    27. 10%
    28. 25%
    29. 50%
    30. Once again, Ministers are promising to tackle teacher workload. What was the average working week of a primary teacher in 2000, according to the STRB?
    31. 35 hours (only joking)
    32. 53 hours
    33. 56 hours
    34. 59 hours
    35. Most weeks, the TES weighs in with adverts for several thousand teacher vacancies. What proportion of teaching posts does the TES now report schools classing as "difficult to fill"?
    36. one quarter
    37. one third
    38. one half
    39. two thirds