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Union complains of school staffing ‘crisis’ amid ‘persistent underfunding’
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SNP MINISTERS are responsible for the “persistent underfunding” of education that has caused a crippling crisis in teacher recruitment and retention, NASUWT warns today
The Scottish government is also failing to tackle teachers’ “excessive workloads and serious violence and abuse from pupils,” the education union’s general secretary Dr Patrick Roach charged.
He spoke out as educators gathered in Aberdeen for NASUWT Scotland’s annual conference.
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