The Scottish Government has been trying to create opportunities for newly-qualified teachers for some two years.Under the Teacher Refresh programme, local Councils can receive extra borrowing entitlements if they offer early retirement to techers aged 55+ and replace them with newly qualified teachers.
Initial take up of the programme was slow, with only two Councils signing up - Falkirk and West Dunbartonshire. But the pace has now quickened, as just nine miles up the M6 from Carlisle, Dumfries and Galloway Council have earlier this year granted 82 teachers early retirement. An article in last Wednesday's Dumfries and Galloway Standard further suggests that a second wave of 82 teachers will be retiring, to be replaced by 64 newly qualified teachers and 15 probationary (induction year) teachers.
Whether this means an extra source of vacancies for our own Education graduates in any number is questionable, but it does perhaps show that the glut of newly-qualified teachers in Scotland created by the "McCrone Year" arrangement is slowly starting to recede.
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