Guess whether teacher recruitment targets were met this year

Yeah...I looked into it for a bit in my final year. The bursary was attractive. But I think you have to be slighlty insane to be considering teaching right now.

I was a trainee on the 25k bursary I left a few weeks ago. I can honestly say it was the worst 2 1/2 months of my life. I’d come from (and will return too) an exceedingly demanding and stressful job where we are also exceedingly short staffed and work in very difficult circumstances but I found training to be a teacher a total nightmare. The training is tough, the work load enormous but it was the way I was treated by the teachers in my placement school that pushed me over the edge. Im a pretty tough individual and have worked in some pretty tough places with some very diffficult individuals (including secure units and other organisations where I’ve even been threatened with guns knives etc but never have I felt so unsupported and met with such unpleasantness from teachers. The sad thing is that Im not the only one other trainees report similar things many are only staying because of the high bursaries but are not planning to stay in teaching once they’ve finished they don’t care if they pass or fail they’ll still being paid. . Morally I couldn’t do this.
I’m not sure what they way forward is but something has to change if more trainees don’t either leave mid training or opt not to do their NQT year.

They are offering £25,000 to students who want to train as teachers in these subjects though so I do think that is a start. Some people just will not want to teach. They possibly do not like children that much! We had no teacher shortages when I was at school many moons ago but some of them, despite being Oxford grads, were absolutely not teachers. It is a challenge to get the right people in the classroom and any old bod will not do.