The council is recruiting highly quality teachers from Ireland and Canada, countries it says have surplus newly qualified and ‘first year teachers’.
This month, Aberdeenshire Council interviewed more than 30 candidates from Dublin in Ireland and Toronto in Canada.
According to the council, in Ireland there are around 600 graduate teachers each year failing to secure a teaching position.
Similarly, a study by the Ontario College of Teachers in 2011 revealed that almost one in three newly qualified teachers were unable to secure employment.
Under Aberdeenshire council’s recruitment drive, successful candidates will be allocated a teaching role in a primary school or academy across Aberdeenshire, starting in the new school term.
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