Note: This is from two decades ago.

Teacher development consumed a hell of a lot of my time, and that of my senior leadership group, goes into developing people so that they can do their job better in terms of building kids and achieving, hopefully, the outcomes that we want.

We are riddled with teachers in our system up here who oughtn’t to be teaching.

We also have a hell of a lot of teachers in our system who are got to be’s, not want to be’s.

They don’t want to teach, but they have to teach, and often it’s because they weren’t sufficiently qualified to pick up any other occupation from a training viewpoint.

Have things changed?