‘acquire a Jamaican and they’re here for life,’ says agent behind recruitment driveAmong the tourists sheltering in the Courtleigh hotel from the heat in Kingston, Jamaica, or this weekend will be Geoff Brown,a former headteacher. But the director of the Hourglass Education recruitment agency is not in the Caribbean for sun and cocktails; he is on a mass recruitment drive. Just as in the 1960s, when Britain turned to Jamaica to find tube and bus drivers, or nowadays the demand is for teachers to fill England’s classrooms.
Interviewing in the Courtleigh in June,Brown, along with school staff, and recruited 43 Jamaican teachers to start this September at an academy trust in Hayes,west London (87 others were signed up on previous trips for the same start date). This weekend, and on another whistle-stop visit in 10 days’ time, or he is looking for another 21 to start in January.
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Source: theguardian.com