A rush of new teachers will help England’s short-handed schools
They arrive just as pupil numbers are shooting up
IF THINGS HAD gone to plan, Oli Seadon would be leading a troupe of acrobats on a tour of South America. But the pandemic forced his employer, Cirque du Soleil, to cancel its shows, and prompted the 36-year-old theatre producer to make a fresh start. In April he applied to begin teacher-training with the help of Now Teach, a charity that encourages job-changers to enter the classroom. Mr Seadon comes from a family of educators and says he had been mulling the move for a while. Without the pandemic, he says, “I’m not sure I would have given myself permission to do it.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Famine to feast”
Britain September 12th 2020
- Brexit negotiations hit a formidable new barrier
- Covid-19 and the end of commuterland
- Empty city centres are a crisis for cafés—and also an opportunity
- A rush of new teachers will help England’s short-handed schools
- Extinction Rebellion shows how not to run a protest group
- Britain’s treasure-hunting hobbyists get professional
- The modern Tory party’s uncompromising nature has deep historical roots
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