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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25686208As I understand it, teacher numbers are low as it is. And I'd love to know if Labour genuinely has plans for 'updating skills' (whatever the feck that means), or if it's just another attempt at voter popularity knowing how well talk of education plays.
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ProfessorF
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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I've often said that what the profession needs is more bureaucracy and stacks of paperwork, to be completed in your own unpaid time.
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 12:51 pm |
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l3v1ck
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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More bureaucracy and pointless paperwork meaning teachers have less time for teaching.
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 1:19 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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So that soon teaching assistants will need degrees, as they fill in for teachers? 
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 3:56 pm |
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paulzolo
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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So, what happened to the General Teachers Council, to which every teacher had to belong? No membership, no work. That was a Labour initiative that was supposed to up the image of the profession?
It shut down because it cost too much to run.
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:50 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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They tried something similar when they were in office and it got shot down so why try again now?
There should be a way of getting rid of bad teachers but are there really that many?
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 8:03 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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This basically sounds like revalidation that doctors have to undergo. It's a load of crap since often the best clinicians struggle but it doesn't stop a crap doctor from being crap.
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 8:28 pm |
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am Posts: 7935 Location: Manchester.
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Yes. Yes, there are, and getting rid of them is nigh on impossible. Sent from my big ass Sony Xperia Z Ultra tabphonelet, using Tapatalk 4.
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