Bouncers are being employed by schools to hand out work and watch pupils while teachers are away, delegates at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference were told. Schools are advertising for “cover supervisors” with military or police experience but no teacher training, paid half the salary of supply teachers. A drop of blood or a speck of tissue could soon be all that is needed to diagnose cancers and assess their response to treatment. New technology, developed at Stanford University in California, that allows cancer proteins to be analysed in tiny samples, could end the need for surgical biopsies.
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The NUT demanded a 10 per cent pay rise saying that it refused to take “lessons in morality from the Government”. Its annual conference voted to press for a rise of £3,000 or 10 per cent, whichever is greater. Other unions have accepted pay rises of 2.3 per cent this year and next.
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