[nukkad] Thousands of permanent jobs are up for grabs and available

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Perfect lessons from India 

By Rashmee Z Ahmed

The Times of India News Service

LONDON: In a bold new initiative to attract, recruit and keep teachers, London schools are to offer long-term contracts to thousands of Indians for the new September term.

More than 200 London schools have asked recruitment agencies to search for teachers willing to undertake long-term work commitments. A recruitment agency that will soon be advertising an "unlimited" number of vacancies in India, told The Times of India, the schools' specific requirements led them to turn to countries such as India, Jamaica and in eastern Europe. 

The new recruitment strategy is seen as significant in moving away from short-termism. A British Asian educationist believes it might even refocus India's gaze, away from IT and onto education.

News that thousands of permanent jobs are up for grabs and available at once --to Indians who speak "perfect" English, have basic teachers' qualifications and no police record, comes even as British schools face an acute shortage of teachers, forcing some to change to a four-day week.

Schools increasingly rely on so called supply teachers, the daily-wage jobbers recruited for casual, short-term work, but London schools want to end the culture of ad hocism and provide stability for students. 

Lisa Gilbert of New Choice Education, a recruitment agency said they hoped Indians would find British salaries attractive enough to want to stay long.

Clearly, it would also help if the new Indian recruits were stay-at-home types. Recruitment agencies say foreign teachers, mostly from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa generally like short-term work because they want to travel around Britain and further afield. 

The Indian, however, is perceived to more work-orientated and less keen on the school of thought that says travel is a great education. 

Potential Indian recruits can expect a warm official welcome, according to agencies. Indeed, under new regulations, visas and work permits for so-called shortage occupations now take days, not weeks. 

But Britain's department of education told The Times of India it did not "encourage (teacher recruitment from) developing nations where there is likely to be an adverse effect on the economy". 

The spokesman pointed out that the government itself did not recruit teachers, in Britain or abroad, leaving this to the private sector. Analysts say the government is keen to play down the negative publicity of repeatedly advertising Britain's skills shortage abroad. In recent months, doctors, nurses and IT workers have been added to the list of "most wanted", alongside maths, physics and chemistry teachers.

Recruitment agencies say a factor is the lack of respect for such professions, something they admit they will have to forewarn Indians about.

Says Gilbert, "I will tell Indian applicants the truth that it will be tough, there may be some schools lacking discipline, there may be some unruly disruptive children. They will have to adapt to life here".

Source-http://www.timesofindia.com/today/22home7.htm

KIKU


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