Education

Social Research – Qualitative

FDS has conducted a number of telephone polls for TES in recent years. Subjects covered have included:

• Headteachers’ and teachers’ attitudes to the education of children with special needs. Most believed that these children should be educated alongside other children in mainstream schools,;
  
• The views of parents and children with regards to exam pressures and other aspects of home life today (eg. Television watching habits, games console playing);
  
• Job satisfaction amongst teachers