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71% of supply teachers work on contract from choice National survey reveals: Temporary working becomes a permanent solution
s more teachers are working for themselves as contractors in order to control their destiny in a difficult economy, according to a report from Randstad, one of the world’s leading recruitment companies. Randstad’s Navigator research of nearly 3000 organisations and candidates has found 63% of temporary workers and contractors surveyed have actively chosen not to pursue permanent opportunities. The number of permanent workers considering contracting is also rising as 48% would consider it in their next job move. 71% of supply teachers said they chose to work as contractors from active choice, dispelling the myth that workers were forced by the economic downturn. In fact, the survey revealed that the majority of supply teachers were contract workers BEFORE the downturn, only 20% having turned to contracting since the recession, having failed to find a permanent post.
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Reasons given by supply teachers for the career choice included gaining more varied experience. Flexibility of ‘the choice over when, where, on what and for whom’ they worked was a factor mentioned, the sentiment summed up by one freelancer surveyed who said “Ongoing economic uncertainly makes me glad to be in control of my own career and not reliant on a single employer.” Randstad Education operations director Jenny Rollinson says “Skilled people in the education sector work freelance through choice rather than necessity. The nature of such a choice is reliant on continuity, quality and loyalty, and is no longer to be perceived as transient.”
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he winner of Aimia Foods’ Zing competition, set up to celebrate its launch into high schools, has been revealed as 11 year old George Goddard from a local Grammar School in West Yorkshire. After correctly naming the three delicious flavours of the lightly sparkling juice drink and submitting his answer to
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