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who are young in the profession.” At the Brighton conference, Gove also announced that heads would be able to fire underperforming teachers more quickly under plans to be released by the government this summer. Presently, it takes heads a minimum of two years to sack poor teachers. But the process can drag on even longer if they claim to have been bullied or are off sick with stress.
“Our proposals will make it easier and quicker to get rid of under- performing teachers,” Gove said. “We are going to make the process faster and simpler and we will deal with some of the most notorious dodges which have been used by teachers.”
The conference also saw the inaugural speech from Chris Harrison, the association’s new president. He used the platform to spread his belief that leading a school is the best job in the world. “Why? Because leading a school is about pride, passion and per- formance. It is about believing what you are doing, communicating the vision, and taking others with you. It is what all of you here do in your schools every single day and we do it so well – and we should be selling our work,” he said.
Mr Harrison did express concern, though, that annual surveys into head teacher recruitment confirmed fewer and fewer people wanted the job. This is despite head teachers believing the job is the best one going. “We must be keeping it too much to ourselves – or are we sending out the wrong messages, I wonder?” Mr Harrison said he loved the job because it involved working with peo- ple, developing a shared vision and doing something different every day.
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“So why don’t people want the job? It is not about the paperwork, the bureaucracy, the behaviour of small boys or even the plethora of regulations. What head teacher colleagues tell us is that they don’t want to be drawn from their key purpose by tables, tests and targets, and they don’t want to be held accountable for things over which they not only have little control but are the very areas where they
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