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Stand By Our Teachers

By: Venda Premkumar

A teacher explains the toll the cost of living crisis is having on our children's education – and why the only answer is to strike for something better.

Two pupils work through a textbook with their teacher in a school in Hexham, Northumberland. (SolStock / Getty Images)

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I’ve worked as an English teacher at a second-ary school in London for the past eighteen years. The job has changed immensely in that time. The workload has increased year on year. Schools are responding to pressure from Ofsted and an accountability agenda, which, in practice, means asking educators to do bureaucratic tasks, taking them […]

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I’ve worked as an English teacher at a second-ary school in London for the past eighteen years. The job has changed immensely in that time. The workload has increased year on year. Schools are responding to pressure from Ofsted and an accountability agenda, which, in practice, means asking educators to do bureaucratic tasks, taking them […]

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I’ve worked as an English teacher at a second-ary school in London for the past eighteen years. The job has changed immensely in that time. The workload has increased year on year. Schools are responding to pressure from Ofsted and an accountability agenda, which, in practice, means asking educators to do bureaucratic tasks, taking them […]

I’ve worked as an English teacher at a second-ary school in London for the past eighteen years. The job has changed immensely in that time. The workload has increased year on year. Schools are responding to pressure from Ofsted and an accountability agenda, which, in practice, means asking educators to do bureaucratic tasks, taking them […]

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