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The True Cost of the Teacher Shortage

Graham Prior

28th October 2015

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An article on the BBC website yesterday (Teacher shortage ‘costing millions in supply staff’) highlighted that teacher shortages are costing schools hundreds of millions of pounds in temporary supply staff.

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Graham Prior

Graham is an experienced teacher, examiner, moderator and lover of education with a passion for teaching and learning.

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