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Probationer teachers are cannon fodder to cut costs

Councils have been accused of using government-funded probationer teachers as cheap “cannon fodder” to fill vacancies, fuelling fears that qualified individuals are being displaced and driven to quit. It comes amid growing pressure on ministers to agree a minimum national staffing standard alongside reformed arrangements for providing crucial on-the-job experience. Critics claim the current process is causing significant recruitment problems, with cash-strapped authorities seeking to cut costs by using probationers to fill vacancies that would otherwise be open to their fully-qualified colleagues. The result is that experienced teachers and those who have completed probation face a prolonged struggle to secure permanent work. Many observers fear the situation is pushing increasing numbers away from the profession, particularly in the early phase of their careers.

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Scotland s trades unions are finding they ve got some muscle to flex – Gina Davidson

While nurses have been told they will receive a four per cent pay rise, according to trade unions currently in negotiations with Cosla about pay for council staff, government ministers don’t believe they are “on a par” with health workers, so there’s no cash for them. Calls for £15 an hour for social care staff have also gone unheeded. The unions have, unsurprisingly called such an attitude a “slap in the face” and staff are being balloted for industrial action. Earlier this week Cosla president Alison Evison said the government was on a “dangerous” road in how it treated local authorities and that its “rhetoric on empowering the local does not match the reality”. Unions would argue that disconnect extends to local government staff and how much they should be paid.

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Teachers relying on pseudo exams to an excessive extent, expert warns

TEACHERS will have to rely to an “unfortunately excessive extent” on “pseudo exams” to assess senior pupils in Scotland this year, according to an education expert. Lindsay Paterson, professor of education policy at the University of Edinburgh, said this was because the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) had cancelled most of the normally assessed course work this year, “a failure that has not been widely enough commented on”. The national exam diet was called off because of the coronavirus pandemic but concern is growing over Alternative Certification Model (ACM), with many pupils complaining the assessments scheduled for this term look like formal exams.

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Kevin McKenna: Scotland s dismal political class have nothing to say to the poor or the young

Kevin McKenna: Scotland s dismal political class have nothing to say to the poor or the young
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Covid Scotland: Pupils to return to school amid warnings of safety risk and exam confusion

Covid Scotland: Pupils to return to school amid warnings of safety risk and exam confusion
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