Re: There will be £10m for a scheme to identify ways to keep physics and maths teachers in schools
wife recently retired from teaching Chemistry (all year groups in secondary and 6th form) after 26 years in the job. The 90's were the better years - class sizes were good, backup from upper staff good and the budgets reasonable, 00's saw class sizes go up and the infrastructure start to decline, IT was introduced everywhere and things were ok. 10's were the worst by far, crumbling infrastructure, high staff turnover, no support from upper levels, no budgets and kids without support (who would have had 1-1 in the 90s). She was glad to be out and that feeling is echo'd by many teachers.
The profession is basically boiling down to the same as the NHS - hopefully you can train enough people in 3/4 years to replace the ones who quit after 3/4 years.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
