Everyone needs to be able to visualise a better future for themselves. After all, that’s exactly what we try to instil in our pupils. Much of our teaching centres on tracing the progress made in the world, in arts and humanities and also in the sciences.
So it is troubling, to say the least, to see that despite obvious high levels of enthusiasm from black, Asian and ethnic minority applicants to join the teaching profession, for some reason that isn’t matched with clear career progression into senior levels.
We should also consider why so many leave? Answer that and we may have a solution and we clearly need to understand the experience which means many feel they are not being looked after in the early stages of their careers.
