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'McCormac strips teachers of their professionalism,' says NASUWT

27 September 2011

Commenting on the publication of the McCormac Review: 21st Century Teaching, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers' union in Scotland, said:

“The NASUWT said when the Review was announced that its outcome would not be good news for teachers, pupils or the education service.

“Regrettably we have been proved right.

“This Review is stripping teachers of their professionalism and is a blueprint for increasing already excessive workload, further deepening the crisis in teacher morale.

“The Review appears simply to be a further cost-cutting exercise.

“This is evident from the fact that it acknowledges the professionalism of teachers and that education has improved under the current teachers' agreement but then mounts spurious arguments for change, based on cherry-picking data from international surveys.

“Any review of teachers' conditions and working practices should have the aim of raising standards of education for all children and young people.

“If the Review recommendations are implemented, they will roll back on the distinct provisions which have made Scottish schools amongst the best in the UK.”

Jane Peckham, NASUWT Scotland Organiser, said:

“Teachers are still reeling from the imposition of the COSLA changes to their working conditions.

“It is difficult to see how the McCormac Review will give them any confidence for the future.”



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