The Tories are making quite good points here, but they are being a tad disingenuous with the ol' statistics.
The 250,000 figure is probably correct, the Tories took it straight from one of the appendices listed here. But let's look at the 100,000 who left teaching between 2000 and 2005, that's 20,000 a year, there are about 540,000 teachers in primary and secondary education in the UK (439,300 in England, 50,517 in Scotland plus another 50,000 for Wales and NI).
Hmm. That looks like 1-in-27 packing it in every year. I'd have guessed the turnover in the teaching profession to be far higher than that, so there you go.
A grim document
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statistics can prove anything....
One in 27 chance of quitting each year isn't far off natural wasteage due to retirement (about one in thirty something at a guess). Factor in that many teachers are women and therefore leave the profession to have kids and you do have almost no unnatural wastegae.
RM, exactly, the 1-in-27 figure is rather on the low side!
If teachers include all their work related tasks, how many hours are they working?
Do you think that it's possible for teachers to achieve work-life balance? How?
United, I for one hear you.
I work about 50 to 55 hours a week for a fixed salary. But I DON'T have to face childrenfor even 1 of those 50-odd hours.
I reckon you need to convince the government to reduce the amount of programming of children that you are required to do, plus ease up on the ticking of boxes.
Mind you, when Mark gets his way, and something like 20% of the government workers are laid-off, we could reemploy some of them as teachers aids.
UTI, for answers as to whether that is possible, go to Philip Thomas' blog, he's a teacher.
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