Uh oh. England needs 47,000 extra secondary school teachers by 2024

[noblegiraffe]

In order to cope with a projected explosion in pupil numbers at secondary level, we’re going to need 47,000 extra secondary teachers.

Recruitment for this year is down by 19% on last year, where recruitment targets were already missed, so it’s looking unlikely that this will be met.

Measures the DfE have taken to address this crisis:
Scrapping the limit on the number of times you can take the QTS skills test
Telling teacher trainers to lower their standards and stop turning away unsuitable applicants
Offering £40,000 bursaries for ex military to train to teach
Workload challenge posters
...um...?

Measures the DfE have taken to cause this crisis:
Total revamp of the curriculum and exam structure in a ridiculously short timeframe
8 years of pay cuts
Michael Gove
Performance-related pay
Slating us in the media
Denying that there’s even an issue
Crapper pensions that we won’t be able to claim anyway until we’re already dead
School budget cuts leading to redundancies, larger class sizes, not enough resources, experienced and expensive teachers being managed out
Cuts to mental health and SEN provision putting greater burden on teachers
Trying to force all schools to become an academy and the rise of chains like Harris

www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/exclusive-england-needs-47000-extra-secondary-teachers

Just you see, by 2024 the one remaining maths teacher will be teaching all the students in the country via Skype. Marking will be done by randoms recruited on Fiverr. All exams will be multiple choice so they can be machine-marked. Ex-teachers will make a fortune charging £50 per hour for private tuition.

[Piggywaspushed]

I think it's bad reporting here , because later in the article, it seems that these 'pastoral carers' (because lessons are pastoral...) are to be paid peanuts and are not the same person delivering the lesson : I have no idea who that is! But I don't think the plan is to have teachers doing this pastoral thing, unless they want a pay cut.

he also said the carer was not there for crowd control! Presumably no one will misbehave when being taught by a tablet.

It is genuinely a terrifying window on the future.

[noblegiraffe]

Ah you have access to the full article, piggy I could only see what I posted.

It sounds like someone with no idea about what teaching actually involves gearing up to sell something. Glasgow council have just spent millions on a tablet for every pupil. Bonkers, but probably with one eye on this sort of thing. It’ll all end in tears.

[Piggywaspushed]

Bound to!