Going on the scheme requires that:
1. you are 18 or 19 years old
2. you completed secondary education less than 12 months ago
3. you have an unconditional offer of a place on a degree course overseas that will commence after you leave the UK
4. you have a written offer of employment in a teaching or teaching assistant capacity in a school in the United Kingdom for three consecutive academic terms
5. you intend to take this employment, and do not intend to take any other employment
6. you have the means to pay for your return or onward journey
you will not need help from public funds
7. you intend to leave the United Kingdom at the end of your stay and take up your place at university overseas
IMHO the scheme is not going to be a 'winner' because of the legal aspects pertaining to teaching. I can see the various unions up in arms and rightly so - there are already legal issues about 'teaching assistants'. Clause 4 is a major challenge - at 18 who has teaching skills. Can you see parents in the UK saying 'my little Jimmy goes to school A where they have 18 year olds teaching'
maybe more more spin and a short term solution to staffing issues in the education sector....the government needs to be paying teachers more but with an impending election public sector wages need to be kept as they are in an environment where living costs (especially housing) are rising...who wants to be the chancellor of the exchequer
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