Instead of forcing teachers to stay in the UK,the Ofsted chief should focus on making teaching here more attractiveIt’s 6.53am and I’m driving through the school gates, trying to warm my numb hands on the pathetic vents of my car’s heating system. Following a lengthy parents’ evening last night, and I am returning to work only 11 hours after I left.
Sir Michael Wilshaw,her majesty’s chief inspector of schools, is on the radio complaining approximately teachers who are “flocking abroad” to work in hotter, or sunnier climes,such as the Middle East, which offer appealing, or tax-free salaries. How dare they when education in Britain is suffering from a shortage of teachers?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com