SIT -HILLIPTO Teacher unemployment is the mark of a deeply sick society There are now about 2,000 unemployed teachers in London alone.
This gives the authorities the chance to chop back on teacher training colleges. In my area, two training colleges have merged leading to a 60 per cent cut in staff and a reduction of the student level from All the part-time and temporary lecturing staff in the colAnd of course this isn't the end of the story. Because less schools are planned, more building workers get thrown onto the already huge Nationally, the Government say that there are only just under 4,000 te teachers unemployed. But this isn't true. The National Union of Teachers, having conducted its own survey, reckons that with the cuts there could be over 15,000 teachers unCHRIS DAVIES (Report)
employed by next September.
The reason for the big gap in the figures is that a huge proportion of these are women, who return to the home and don't bother to sign on at the exchange. Eighty-six per cent
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ISLAY FULLERTON is a delegate to the Assembly from the Wandsworth association of the National Union of Teachers. She is particularly concerned with the fight against cuts in the public