How to stop teachers heading for the exit
Readers respond to an article that reported on reasons why teachers are leaving the state sector in England to work abroad. Sally Weale’s article ( ‘I’d burn in hell before teaching in England again’, G2, 13 November) reports that UK-trained teachers are moving to private schools abroad: “Often exhausted by their experiences in the UK, they complain of excessive workload, stress, a lack of work-life balance, funding cuts, a dread of Ofsted, an obsession with paperwo
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