5 months ago 20th Feb 09:46
“Teaching is fast becoming a boomerang profession. People are voting with their feet to come back to it, after acquiring valuable experiences either at home or in other workplaces. Those returning to teaching are discovering that today’s profession offers greater flexibility, better pay, and much more structured career development than even a few years ago. When combined with the second-to-none job satisfaction that comes from working with young people, it is not hard to see why teaching is a uniquely compelling profession to which people are magnetically drawn back.
“And jobseekers are not the only ones to benefit. Schools can recruit staff with a new skills mix and a real commitment to the profession. Almost 97,000 people are now working part-time in schools and provide an essential variety of skills, background and experience to enable our students to realise their full potential.”
To find out more about returning to teaching, visit www.tda.gov.uk/returning
Your Comments:
by Susie - 22:16:12 8th Mar 2008
I am a mum of a 3 year old and a 1 year old and a teacher. I have found that teaching is inflexible and not child friendly. When children are ill coll... READ MORE
by Mark Sellars - 20:26:23 20th Feb 2008
I think it's great people want to start learning again - i was never so great at school but have worked much harder in recent years.