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We are sleepwalking into teacher recruitment armageddon 🖊️ stefanohat via ipaperviews

With two further teacher strike days next month, even most parents are sympathetic to our struggles – and they are appalled at the salaries tooTeachers march in London during recent industrial action by the National Education Union news of two further teacher strike days in July

with emotions ranging from resignation to anger. Teacher strikes really do affect the wider population: how on Earth do hard-pressed parents arrange childcare? That there have already been five national and three regional unpaid strike days by the NEU, Britain’s largest teaching union, only exacerbates the tension.

We are sleepwalking into teacher recruitment armageddon. The number of teacher vacancies posted until February this year was; 37 per cent higher that in the same period of 2021-22. This date matters. Most teachers have to give a full term’s notice. But, reports this past week indicated that there were still some 7,500 unfilled vacancies, an astonishing figure when one thinks about the juggling with supply teachers or increased class sizes that it will result in if not remedied.

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