ABOUT 6.5 per cent of British children are educated privately, and those pupils need teachers.
But without the automatic protection of the National Agreement on Pay and Conditions of Service the “Burgundy Book” those teachers can be especially vulnerable.
When private schools are restructured, jobs can be lost and terms and conditions of employment subject to detriment.
While there is a live debate on the left about even the existence of these businesses, the argument is not with the teachers and education support staff who work for them.
The NASUWT organises across the independent sector but, without automatic trade union recognition, members often lack the collective bargaining rights that other teachers can take for granted.
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REFORMING Scotland’s education system must be a post-Covid priority for new Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville, teachers’ union NASUWT said today.
The union said that the founding principles of Scotland’s curriculum have been lost through an overemphasis on assessment and bureaucracy.
It fears that teachers are being disempowered by high workloads and aren’t being allowed the flexibility to meet the needs of all pupils.
The union called for the forthcoming independent review of the curriculum to begin the development of a system “in which the needs of all pupils would be recognised and teachers would be supported to make the most of their skills and expertise.”
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By Lucy Whyte
Senior school pupils are in the middle of sitting assessments which will decide their qualifications.
The original plan
image captionJohn Swinney announced the cancellation of exams last December
The system put in place to award grades for National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers this year is called the Alternative Certification Model.
It was first created after Deputy First Minister John Swinney announced the cancellation of National 5 final exams, which are mostly sat in fourth year.
Then it was updated when Highers and Advanced Highers, which are sat in fifth and sixth year, were also cancelled in December last year.