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Question reference: S5W-11307

  • Asked by: Michelle Ballantyne, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 14 September 2017
  • Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 26 September 2017

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5F-01508 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 September 2017 (Official Report, c.9), what action it is taking in response to the findings of a study of teachers in Scotland by Bath Spa University, which recorded (a) that 40% are considering leaving their job within the next 15 to 19 months and (b) teachers describing their working conditions as being "extremely poor".


Answer

The Scottish Government welcomes all discussion on how to improve conditions for teachers in Scotland, and we will give this report full consideration. We want to create a world-class education system that helps all of our children to succeed, and of course highly skilled, motivated and appropriately rewarded teaching professionals are an integral part of that. The Scottish Government has been working with teachers, teacher unions, local authorities and other partners to address concerns around workload levels, and this will continue to be a key theme of our education reforms as we take forward our governance review.