More school cuts
By Mark Jenkins
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BRENT Education Committee (London) has issued instructions to its schools that supply teachers will no longer be available to cover absences for teachers away for less than three days.
In future staff shortages due to illness or other causes must be covered by remaining staff.
In winter months with the inevitable epidemics, this could lead to serious staffing shortages in many schools. Marking and preparation time could disappear.
It is one more example of the kind of economies being made behind the backs of teaçhers and at the expense of children's education.
Recently National Union of. Teachers (NUT) leaders made a deal with Coventry Education Committee to partially improve the situation caused by the sacking of the borough's part-time teachers.
The NUT leaders conceded unspecified 'economies in other fields' of education as part of the agreement.
Has Brent Council provided the first clue as to what these economies might be?