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Laughs in absolutely decimated university sector
We've known this one for years. How to increase teaching staff workload:
1). Hire 3 people to do 2.8 people's jobs.
2). Make a huge fuss and convince 2 of those people they are doing more than the third.
3). Fire one person, and reduce workload slightly.
4). End up with 2 people doing 2.6 people's jobs.
Repeat as needed to drive your talented teaching staff into the ground.
There’s a primary and secondary element to this: fast elevating grifter-types who are thrilled with “managing” others out of the classroom (especially if they’re not good teachers) and awarding them excessively large salaries. £300-500k plus a chauffeur anyone for parading round in a suit and making the “big decisions” like employing cheap non-qualifieds.
I’ll eat my hat if I see any of the senior managers of academies and MATs being made redundant.
Oh but senior management are essential! It's not as if their poor decision making led us to... Oh...
On a more serious note, unions are an educator's best friend.
I was an active member of NUT until I found out that our local rep had his salary paid by the LEA in a deal with the union. He helped shut our school and refused to carry out collective bargaining even when we voted unanimously. He “advised” LEA in how to deal with staff. When we complained to the union, they refused to listen. Left with the impression this sort of thing happened a lot. Didn’t renew my membership and wouldn’t ever rejoin.