A TEACHING union has warned of a looming staffing crisis in Scotland's schools as a raft of funding issues create an "impossible" squeeze on the ability to hire teachers.
The Herald has spoken to the EIS teaching union and teachers about reported issues and heard robust teaching numbers do not show the true picture in Scottish classrooms.
During the covid pandemic schools were given additional funding that supported the employment of extra staffing but this has since been withdrawn.
Wage bills have risen following successful pay campaigning by teachers but PEF (Pupil Equity Funding) money from the Scottish Government as part of means to challenge the attainment gap has stood still.
In Glasgow the local authority hires between 300 and 340 probationer teachers each year.
The EIS said that routinely over the past 10 years the council has recruited the vast majority of probationers in a permanent named school, on permanent supply or on a fixed term contract from August while also hiring probationers from other councils.
