MORE than seven in 10 teachers have said their school is “running on empty” ahead of an indicative strike ballot by Britain’s biggest education union.A survey of 2,000 National Education Union (NEU) members found 71 per cent believe their school does not have enough funding to meet basic provision for pupils.One teacher respondent said: “My school’s budget is so tight at the moment that we’re discussing no longer having whiteboards and pens due to the cost of replacing whiteboard pens.”
  • Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Teachers not able to have board pens unless they pay for them out of their own pockets… meanwhile the CEO of the academy chain near us earns £350k a year and has a car with a chauffeur. Some CEOs are earning more that that. There are a lot of “senior leaders” - heads, deputies, assistant heads - earning big money, too. UK education has been utterly ruined since 1988.

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
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      16 days ago

      It was okay in the 2000s. Not great, but schools generally got by without squeezing parents and teachers. Now? My god, who would want to teach