In 2024, the chairpersons of 17 parent councils in Aberdeenshire wrote to the Scottish government asking for urgent action to tackle the teacher shortages in the north east.<\/p>\n
The then education secretary, Jenny Gilruth, said the issue would be looked at. <\/p>\n
However, Ms Suer said things had got worse rather than better.<\/p>\n
Local authorities organisation Cosla said it recognised there was an issue with teaching shortages in particular subject areas across the country.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said: “This provides local authorities with real challenges to delivering subject choice to learners and fill timetables.<\/p>\n
“We are working with Scottish government and our trade union partners to identify solutions to overcome these challenges.”<\/p>\n
The Scottish government said the country’s teachers were the best paid in the UK.<\/p>\n
“Teacher numbers have increased by more than 2,700 over the last decade thanks to Scottish government investment,” said a spokesperson.<\/p>\n
“Scotland already has the lowest pupil-teacher ratio and smallest class sizes anywhere in the UK, and ministers are committed to at least maintaining this ratio over the lifetime of this parliament.”<\/p>\n
The spokesperson added that the yearly teacher training targets took into account the number of teachers who were starting training.<\/p>\n
“Any shortfall in one year doesn’t simply carry over in full to the next, because targets and modelling are adjusted based on actual recruitment,” they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, the chairpersons of 17 parent councils in Aberdeenshire wrote to the Scottish government asking for urgent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}