❓ A parliamentary question regarding the potential job losses of 34 fixed-term teachers at Clarkson Community High School, with the Minister for Education responding that they are unaware of the specific number but are working on teacher placements for the following year.
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CLARKSON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL — EXPERT REVIEW GROUP REPORT
I have a supplementary question. Is the minister aware that up to 34 fixed-term teachers at the Clarkson Community High School have been advised that they will no longer have jobs at Clarkson next year, despite having served some four or five years or more in that school? Dr E. CONSTABLE
I have a supplementary question. Is the minister aware that up to 34 fixed-term teachers at the Clarkson Community High School have been advised that they will no longer have jobs at Clarkson next year, despite having served some four or five years or more in that school? Dr E. CONSTABLE
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With the half cohort in schools, we know that there will be some changes to staffing in high schools as the half cohort moves from year 7 into year 8. All permanent teachers’ jobs are obviously secure because they are permanent employees in schools. A number of people who are on one-year contracts in schools will not have their contracts renewed. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Thirty-four of them at this one troubled school—teachers who have been there for four or five years or more. Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: With the half cohort in schools, we know that there will be some changes to staffing in high schools as the half cohort moves from year 7 into year 8. All permanent teachers’ jobs are obviously secure because they are permanent employees in schools. A number of people who are on one-year contracts in schools will not have their contracts renewed. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Thirty-four of them at this one troubled school—teachers who have been there for four or five years or more. Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
With the half cohort in schools, we know that there will be some changes to staffing in high schools as the half cohort moves from year 7 into year 8. All permanent teachers’ jobs are obviously secure because they are permanent employees in schools. A number of people who are on one-year contracts in schools will not have their contracts renewed. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Thirty-four of them at this one troubled school—teachers who have been there for four or five years or more. Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : Thirty-four of them at this one troubled school—teachers who have been there for four or five years or more. Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: With the half cohort in schools, we know that there will be some changes to staffing in high schools as the half cohort moves from year 7 into year 8. All permanent teachers’ jobs are obviously secure because they are permanent employees in schools. A number of people who are on one-year contracts in schools will not have their contracts renewed. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Thirty-four of them at this one troubled school—teachers who have been there for four or five years or more. Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
With the half cohort in schools, we know that there will be some changes to staffing in high schools as the half cohort moves from year 7 into year 8. All permanent teachers’ jobs are obviously secure because they are permanent employees in schools. A number of people who are on one-year contracts in schools will not have their contracts renewed. Mrs M.H. Roberts : Thirty-four of them at this one troubled school—teachers who have been there for four or five years or more. Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : Thirty-four of them at this one troubled school—teachers who have been there for four or five years or more. Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : I am not aware that there are 34 at that one school. I imagine that some of those teachers are part time and some are full time, so it is not necessarily 34 full-time equivalents. Many of our fixed term teachers will have jobs, although maybe not in the schools in which they are currently employed, but in other schools, particularly if they are teaching in areas that are difficult to staff, such as maths and science, and design and technology. I do not know the details of the school. At the present time the department is working through the placement of teachers for next year. I am sure many of those teachers will be looked at as that process goes forward over the next three months.
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