Feeling the heat
Mary Evans
Wednesday, September 5, 2001
Nursery nurses and classroom assistants are being put under pressure by the growing teacher recruitment crisis, often left to cope alone. Mary Evans investigates Schools are beginning the new year facing a teacher shortage described by Ofsted chief inspector Mike Tomlinson as the worst he has seen in his 35-year career in education. However, an academic leading a major study on classroom assistants says that the practice of using support staff for teaching is masking the true extent of the crisis.
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