62% of new teachers cannot secure full-time permanent jobs yet teacher training numbers are at their highest level in a decade. Scottish education must wean itself off cheap probationers before more damage is done. One of my first jobs was in a high street shop when I was in S6, around the same time I applied to study history at university with the ambition of one day becoming … [Read more...] about Saturation point: why Scottish education needs fewer probation teachers
Over-recruited but under-employed
By offsetting low uptake in priority subjects with over-recruitment in social subjects and PE, teacher training is storing up problems for Scottish teachers in future. The Education Secretary’s pledge to provide funding that guarantees work in 2020/21 for newly qualified teachers (NQTs) rightly assuaged the concerns of successful probationers in fraught and uncertain times. … [Read more...] about Over-recruited but under-employed