So, cuts in the Education Budget, what have you experienced first hand?

[beachyhead]

This week, for the first time, we have seen a change in dd1's education budget and I'm interested to see the change people might have seen.. She is doing Art A Level at a state 6th form college and has been given a cut down A4 book cut in half by the staff to A5 to save money.

She, and a lot of the other students. feel that they can't really show their work properly in that format. I appreciate that Art might not be the the best subject to voice this on, but to me it's just an indication of what educational establishments are having to do.

Could you share your views?

long term training in schools has got to be the way forward so that the students recognise the difficulty of the job from the very start

Or, maybe, we could start looking seriously at ways of making a teaching career sustainable for an ordinary mortal again??

Having seen the look on the face of DD's head of English on GCSE results day, NOTHING will make teachers stay put until the petty political interference, day in day out, stops.

Luckily the SLT backed him to the hilt for the whole cohort re-mark and he is still doing good things; but I suspect many teachers would have buckled.

On my debt threads are several teachers - the happiest are the ones who have just resigned.

LuLujakey, that is what is supposed to happen with teach first. That is what it is, teach, first, BEFORE you start your career. It is supposed to look good on your CV and give you particular skills. You have your training condensed down into full time for 6 weeks, rather than one day a week for 9 months. The teach first teachers get experience which may be of value to them, and the schools get a stream of teachers who are only committed to 2 years, and are being constantly replaced with fresh cannon fodder.