Teachers

Part of Education and Lifelong Learning – in the Scottish Parliament at 2:15 pm on 13 September 2007.

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Photo of Kenneth Macintosh Kenneth Macintosh Labour 2:15, 13 September 2007

The 300 extra teaching places are welcome, but does the minister not accept that too many of this year's probationers have serious anxieties about their employment prospects and their future in the teaching profession? Does she not also accept that, given that more than half of all probationers are over the age of 30, many of them are unable to move around the country to find jobs? Will she agree to work with local authorities and others to address those issues, so that confidence in our teacher training system is not eroded through lack of Government action? Such a commitment will not necessarily require any funding.