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It is common knowledge that the supply teacher has a tough role – unfamiliar pupils, absent knowledge of usual challenges present in the classroom, rebellious students simulating the 1970’s Anarchists, only with paper planes, note-passing and behaviour replicative of animals in the wild stalking their prey. Most unenviable of all, supply teachers in their thousands are seeki...

A recent study has found that around half the teachers and social workers within the UK want to quit their jobs in the next 18 months due to poor working conditions and the stress their professions are under. Whilst low pay has always been an issue for the two professions, the national poll of 16,000 found most people cited spending cuts and high workloads as the bigger reas...

Yesterday Theresa May and the Conservative government suffered their first major embarrassment in the House of Commons since the election, after the Democratic Unionist party backed Labour in there move towards increasing NHS pay and the opposition to a rise in tuition fees. Labour’s motions passed with ease on Wednesday without the need to go to a vote after it was clear th...

Last week the idea of training nurses to become doctors by doing ‘part time degrees’ was raised under radical proposals to increase the number of medics. On Wednesday, Health officials said they was looking at ways to help attract nurses, pharmacists and physio’s to train to become doctors while they earned. This is to help the worryingly low levels of doctors within the NHS...