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The price for keeping our schools open is now revealed by the Evening Post.
It is to be hoped that the county borough is not to lose the services of its most experienced and qualified teachers.
Are you affected by these changes? Please let us know, if so.
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I feel that its very unfortunate that NPT is laying off teachers, while in other parts of the UK there are alleged shortages.
One of my greatest bug-bares is the fact that we've got so many teacher training colleges in Wales and so few vacancies for teachers. The numbers of qualified teachers we are producing in Wales far outstrips vacancies.
Why-oh-Why are we exporting some of our best qualified people to the South East of England, no wonder parents in Essex are complaining that they offspring are coming home with Welsh Accents.
Why is Cardiff University making over 20 academics redundant?
More talent lost to Wales!
Perhaps the solution would be to produce some proper jobs in Wales, not the Mickey Mouse McJobs that the WDA in its various guises fobbs the Welsh People off with?
It's a good job that nobody under the Golden Arches reads this blog, or they would be down on us like a ton of McNuggets for using the term McJob!
We can do without academics - teachers are far more important.
We've got an absolute glut of teachers, the number of vacancies for teachers that arising in Wales for a given subject can usually be counted on the fingers of two hands!
Why have we got so many teacher training colleges in Wales? If each college produces 50 teachers per year (conservative estimate) and we've got Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Newport, Swansea and Wrexham with Teacher Training Colleges, we are producing some 750 teachers per annum in Wales, with probably less than 100 vacancies arising - Where are these qualified teacher to go?
On the subject of teachers.......
A school friend of mine was telling me roughly 23 years ago of her experiences of getting accepted on a teacher training course (B.Ed.) She was asked a number of personal questions over her health, and the health of her parents.
Health was being used as a means of screening applicants to the course, she felt very fortunate that she managed to get onto the Teacher Training Course since her father had died at a very early age.
This of course wouldn't be accepted in this day and age since the introduction of the DDA in
1995 or would it????????
So what is the difficulty? There should be no upward pressure on salaries, because of the ready supply of teachers.
Are we paying too much for administration?
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