Tories plan a cull of poorly performing teachers
There is a cull on the way if the Tories come to power – a purge of what they consider to be poorly performing teachers.
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There is a cull on the way if the Tories come to power – a purge of what they consider to be poorly performing teachers.
It’s one of those stories that you have to stop and check yourself about. It fascinates you personally, but you think that you’re probably the only person in the newsroom to care, if not the only person in Britain, maybe. We were in Dubai doing a completely different story (of which more later). But the…
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