Plenty of teachers chasing hardly any jobs. That is the picture contained in figures just announced by the Inner London Education Authority.
In the secondary sector, for instance, there have been 1,000 applications so Tar compared with 300 this time last year. One school has received over 70 applications for a iob in its English department and 30 applications for a Kemedia post. in me prmary sector the situation is even worse: there have already been more than 2,500 applications. Even these figures don't tell the whole story, as many student teachers are just not bothering to apply.
These figures are just one example of the growing gap between the level of education which is potentially available provide under the Government's policy or cuts, Iney demonstrate une need to draw up a register of all unemployed teachers, as a first step to forcing the ILEA into giving jobs to all teachers and so improving the education service.
They also illustrate the need to force the executive of the National Union of Teachers into implementing a real national campaign against the cuts, and to demand that no teachers should be required to cover for absent colleagues. Nor is it only teachers who are being forced onto the dole queue - ancillary workers are also unvolvca, and mere must be a united front involving all agalst Inese measures An all-London Action Committee has been set up as a first step to fight the cuts. It is organising a lobby of the NUT Executive meeting on 20 March at 8.30am outside Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1 to demand that it leads a united fight against the cuts and implements the sanction of no covers nationally. It is also compiling a register of unemployed teachers.
Further information from: All-London Committee Against Cuts and Unemployment, c/o 21 Almorah Road, N1. The ILEA is continuing its attempt to victimise Hackney teacner Mike Colley for attending last october s demonstra tion against the education cuts as an elected delegate from Clissold Park School NUT Hackney Teachers Association has set up a defence committee to fight his case as part of the general campaign against the cuts. Support has so far been won from the South East Region TUC (which organised the October demonstration), Hackney Trades Council, Hackney North & Stoke Newington Labour Partv. and Stan Newens MP. But the NUT has rerused to take up coley s case, Just as H has refused to launch a real fight against The defence committee has called a lobby of the ILEA Education Sub-Committee meeting at County Hall on 23 March at 4.30 pm, to demand that the charges against Mike Colley are dropped. There will also be a lobby of the Clissold Park School Governors meeting /Clissold Road, N.16) on 30 March, - see next Red Weekly for time.
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