tagged w/ Teach First
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Have you ever fancied teaching as a career? I reckon there are some definite perks to it; like long summer holidays, the satisfaction you're influencing young minds and in terms of the job market right now, the stability.
For the past few years Teach First has fast-tracked the best university graduates into the classroom after only 6 weeks of training and the government are hoping to build on that programme with a new 6-month teacher training package (instead of the traditional year), that'll target people looking to change careers.
Ministers have suggested the scheme would work for bankers who have been cut loose in the recession, and hope they can lure people like that into teaching maths and economics in the classroom via this speedier training scheme.
One teachers' association official, Dr Mary Bousted, said enquiries about teacher training have jumped as the recession has taken hold.
Criticising the plans Bousted said; "It sounds like an employment scheme for unemployed bankers, but this may not be the best way to go about it." Wary of the short training period as well, she said teaching is "not suitable for everybody and you need time to know whether you are suited for this kind of work."
The cynical among us may say the government of course wants job seekers in some sort of training scheme, cos it boosts the official unemployed figures. But the more generous may say it's a quick way into a good career for a highly-skilled set of people, which ultimately our kids will benefit from.
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