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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 January 2018 Partnership needed to increase value accorded to education
Education in Scotland is undervalued, according to a recent study undertaken for Education International, which also stresses that public authorities and education policy makers must work with teachers and their unions on professional and national identity.
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Leading the profession 19 December 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #8: "Unions do contribute to quality education. An example from the Gambia", by Marie Antoinette Corr
Marie Antoinette Corr
The World Development Report 2018 recognises, although briefly, that poor working conditions for teachers can undermine learning (p.138). It argues that the status of the teaching profession has declined over the last few decades, and that as a result, “teachers deserve more from the systems that employ them” (p.138).
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Standards and working conditions 11 December 2017 UK: Workload driving teachers out of profession – union survey
Workload is the biggest barrier to young teachers making the profession their career, UK young teachers have highlighted.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 October 2017 UK: Flexible working needed to solve recruitment and retention crisis
Better part-time and flexible working opportunities can help solve the teacher recruitment and retention crisis in the UK, say education unions in response to the latest National Foundation for Educational Research’s report.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2017 UK: recruitment and retention top the list of demands to be put at the heart of governmental policy
Following on the latest report by the National Audit Office, UK education unions have urged the government to step up its efforts to ensure the recruitment and retention in the profession of properly trained teachers.
UK: recruitment and retention top the list of demands to be put at the heart of governmental policy