Commenting on the announcement of a new system to attract international teachers to work in England, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"We entirely agree with the minister that the expertise that schools can draw upon shouldn't be limited by geographical location. But the Government is driven less by internationalism than by the desperate state of its recruitment and retention policy. The government's aspiration to make England the best place in the world to be a teacher will not be realised through a system in which real levels of pay are falling and workload is intensifying.
