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Laughs in absolutely decimated university sector
We've known this one for years. How to increase teaching staff workload:
1). Hire 3 people to do 2.8 people's jobs.
2). Make a huge fuss and convince 2 of those people they are doing more than the third.
3). Fire one person, and reduce workload slightly.
4). End up with 2 people doing 2.6 people's jobs.
Repeat as needed to drive your talented teaching staff into the ground.
There’s a primary and secondary element to this: fast elevating grifter-types who are thrilled with “managing” others out of the classroom (especially if they’re not good teachers) and awarding them excessively large salaries. £300-500k plus a chauffeur anyone for parading round in a suit and making the “big decisions” like employing cheap non-qualifieds.
I’ll eat my hat if I see any of the senior managers of academies and MATs being made redundant.
Oh but senior management are essential! It's not as if their poor decision making led us to... Oh...
On a more serious note, unions are an educator's best friend.
I was an active member of NUT until I found out that our local rep had his salary paid by the LEA in a deal with the union. He helped shut our school and refused to carry out collective bargaining even when we voted unanimously. He “advised” LEA in how to deal with staff. When we complained to the union, they refused to listen. Left with the impression this sort of thing happened a lot. Didn’t renew my membership and wouldn’t ever rejoin.
Implementation of trusts and the SLT aggrandisement this has caused is a huge area of potential cost savings and morale boosting for front-line staff by scrapping it.
The idea of empowering schools via trusts was a decent one, but the implementation is absolutely woeful.
I’ll be surprised if Labour do anything to challenge anything about MATs and the crooks who run them. Take a look at the “experts” involved in the curriculum review - all pro-academisation and many of them already raking in the cash as either CEOs or advisors to MATs. I think parents would be genuinely shocked if they knew the extent of the (for want of a better word) corruption in education. Like all aspects of governing a modern state, politcians don’t want to actually manage anything and are quite happy to let the grifters do it for them.
Just increase income tax on the richest—problem solved. Oh, but the Labour Party would rather lay off teachers.
UK nor the rest of "developed" world aint willing to this. Shit we sill got pedons arguing over it to this day...
We would not want to punish success now? would we?
Anyway got to go, the Jeremy Kyle Show is coming on, I got some UK white trash to judge while I am smashing me some bud light and ultra processed chips.
If you aren't going to invest in education, you might as well pack it all in.