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Troops to Teachers - Just 28 Qualify - Total!

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WTF?!

You mean you don't want to work 60 hour weeks for around 25k and be accused of just about anything to get out of homework or poor behaviour (show me on teddy etc etc)

A flagship scheme to bring ex-servicemen and women to England's classrooms has seen 28 veterans qualify as teachers since it started.

Former Education Secretary Michael Gove had hoped to attract 2,000 applicants to the £4.3m Troops to Teachers scheme.


Schools minister Nick Gibb said a total of 551 applications had been received for the scheme, which began training people in 2014.

This led to 41 individuals starting the programme in its first year.

Since then 28 of the 29 who completed the programme had achieved qualified teacher status (QTS), he said
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Thoughts on this? Is the job market to rich elsewhere? Are servicemen the right candidates for going into schools and teaching?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35595424
 
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Perhaps what they mean is that out of 500 or so applicants only 28 of them could stomach the loss of earnings for two or three years while they went through the teachers training. A lad I know had a go at the civvy equivalent campaign that Tony Blair did about 15 years ago. He was a senior IT specialist and was hacked off with the daily commute and all the other boll0cks he was getting at work and wanted a change in direction. The bottom line was that he sailed through the selection process and came to a grinding halt when the stark reality of living on £10K for a couple of years hit home.

According to him there was at least a dozen other people who dipped out at the same stage as him simply because they had kids to educate (and feed), mortgages and life in general to live through. All very fine if you've just been made redundant and trousered £50K but not for someone who had all the requirements of industry experience (which is what the campaign was about) and still had a life to live.
 
I have a friend who's done this, and I was looking at it as an option when my 22 is up. However, they only accept people who have up to Diploma level qualifications - if you have a Degree (in anything, at any level) then you are overqualified for hte TtT program. There was supposed to be another route for those with a Degree and above, but it never surfaced.

It's not too bad if your aiming to be one of the sought-after teachers (maths, physics, IT) because there are £25k grants for those, but if you want to teach something a bit less 'core curriculum' like art, history etc, then there's nowt.
 
I think that this shows that although it might be a good idea, its been very badly implimented and managed.

So using those figures, each person who has achieved the end goal (not taking those that have fallen by the wayside along the way for whatever reason) has effectively cost the UK taxpayer £153,571 each to train...
 
Mental note: Come back in a years time and see how many of the 28 Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) are still there. The current rate of attrition is for 40% to leave within the first year after qualification, i.e. 11 of 'em will have jacked it in.
 
I would have thought that quite a few would stick it as they're not fresh out of school grads.

Give it a few years to get traction and see it then, I'd be tempted if I fitted the eligibility, for the money is quite an easy life.
 
busby1971 said:
I'd be tempted if I fitted the eligibility, for the money is quite an easy life.
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Yeah that's kind of why I was looking at it. I enjoyed a tour as a phase 2 instructor, so I'm guessing / hoping that teaching at secondary school level would be a slightly similar experience? Plus there's the defined holidays, the (relatively) defined working hours, very little in the form of overtime, Xmas, New Years and the Bank Holidays off etc.

Plus a Headteacher gets paid about the same as a Gp Capt / Wg Cdr! Something to aim for...
 
Witty_Banter said:
Yeah that's kind of why I was looking at it. I enjoyed a tour as a phase 2 instructor, so I'm guessing / hoping that teaching at secondary school level would be a slightly similar experience? Plus there's the defined holidays, the (relatively) defined working hours, very little in the form of overtime, Xmas, New Years and the Bank Holidays off etc.

Plus a Headteacher gets paid about the same as a Gp Capt / Wg Cdr! Something to aim for...
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Yeah, all of the above, and this week alone there's a mere 2267 vacancies advertised.

https://www.tes.com/jobs/browse/secondary-teaching-and-lecturing

Trust me when I say that whole swathes of them will have very little in the way of interest shown.
 
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