SUNDAY HERALD INVESTIGATION: Crisis at the heart of education By Helen McArdle FEWER THAN half of the record number of probationer teachers qualifying in Scotland this year have secured teaching posts ahead of the beginning of the new school term on Thursday and the website which most teachers check for vacancies had exactly 13 jobs across Scotland posted last week. In a survey of all 32 local authorities conducted by the Sunday Herald last week, 19 said they had offered permanent or temporary jobs to less than half the probationer teachers they had employed; of those 10 said that the figure was less than 25%. Only four local authorities - West Lothian, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee and Clackmannanshire - had offered jobs to more than 50% of probationers. Clackmannanshire is unique for halving this year's intake of...
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