THE number of Scots teachers has dropped for the first time in five years despite ministers sanctioning spending over £200m of public money in the past three years on recruitment.
Official figures seen by the Herald has reveals that the proportion of first year probationers remaining in the profession has hit a 12 year low.
The EIS, the country’s largest teaching union, said the decline in teachers, old and new, as the number of pupils in Scottish schools has soared from 693,251 to 705,874 between 2018 and 2022 was a “national disgrace”.
