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Is it Asada that does basics? I thought it was Morrisons. I know Tesco does Value stuff. If you don't add the letters together, how do you know which soup you are getting?

The problem with shortage of Teaching posts is just a local situation caused by the TDA. There are too many training establishments covering this part of the country (Hope, John Moores, Edge Hill and Chester), other parts of the country are crying out for teachers and have no nearby training establishments. The TDA's job is to allocate the number of training posts at each establishment and they are clearly totally wrong around here.

Places like Blackpool have no nearby training (I think ... Lancaster and Bury are the nearest two) and are very short of teachers.

Good luck Christine, I will PM.

Counselling jobs the same! :-c
Good luck christine

Thanks everyone your kind words make me feel a little more positive. I have had 3 long term positions so I have been very lucky but it's just securing that permanent post. I'm getting married in April and although we're not ready to start a family, we couldn't even if we wanted to because of my job. I just feel unsecure although I do get a full week supply teaching every week. The agency say "Oh you're great, schools ask for you all the time!" Yeah well why don't these schools give me a job?! Ha ha - not that I'm bitter or anything!!
What is the GDDR by the way?
Thanks again everyone!!

My girlfriend is a teacher in Liverpool and had the same problems after qualifying. Best advice she can give is keep on with the applying and supply. She supplied for 3 years and had a year contract at one school which ended. Those schools that are requesting you on supply will at some point have a vacancy and if they are requesting you for supply this will look good when a job does arrive. It is very difficult to find teaching posts in this area due to the number of universities sending out teachers each year. Have you completed your NQT year yet?

Bert, I think you will find that class room assistants where brought in by a previous labour goverment, for the sane reason that the last labour government brought in the comunity police. Need i say more

christine i think you taught my son while his teacher was on maternity leave two years ago in birkenhead he thought you were a great teacher

There is a bit of a difference between a classroom assistant and a full blown teacher. Classroom assistants are needed in a school and do provide a valuable role. It would be uneconomic and unecessary to substitue them for teachers. They are there to provide a supportive role and not to teach.

Personally I don't see the point in community police though, why bother with somebody who can only do half the job? Let me guess, to save money!

my daughter has a lot of help from the teaching assistant. if she didnt have the help she would be so far behind. she can read well its writing things down she gets muddled up.the school have applied for funding so she can have the teaching assistant next year.she does get help from the teacher as well but the teaching assistant can free her teacher up to teach the class.

Yes I know where you mean, I did! Ah bless isn't he sweet...looking at your location in comparison to the school I think I know who you mean too!! How lovely, he must be in year 6 by now???

Yes my NQT all done so I have to be honest I am luckier than some new teachers, I will get there eventually I suppose. I have accepted a one year fixed term at a secondary school this year so I'm ok for another year at least!!! Who knows what else it could lead to?!

Well in my new job (local secondary) I overheard the trainee teachers saying how difficult it is to get an interview, but what surprised me was that this was coming from science NQTs.

Which school are you at next year Christine? (PM if you like)

yes Christine he's in year 6 now still wellbehaved and still playing football

As a trainee design tech teacher we where given some very strange statistics to look at:

There are only 2 places on the western hemisphere that have had a decline in the number of applicants for school and have too many teachers, one of them is Detroit USA and the other is Mersyside.

And yet Merseyside has FOUR local teacher training facilities. Areas that are crying out for teachers are sometimes miles away from TT colleges. Good planning by the GTC!