Seems to be painfully easy to get a job as a Latin teacher
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
One single line in the Latin Wikipedia on Worcester: "Vigornia sive Wigornia (Anglice: Worcester) est urbs Angliae, caput comitatus Vigorniae, sedes episcopi ecclesiae Anglicanae."
I've written about this subject before, but this article from the BBC today goes into a bit more detail about how hard it is to find Latin teachers, and therefore how ridiculously easy it must be to get a job as one.
Here's why:
For every 35-40 new Latin teachers entering the profession every year, more than 60 were either retiring or opting to do something else, Labour peer Lord Faulkner said in the House of Lords.and:
The number of non-selective state schools offering Latin had doubled since 2000, she said, while there would be a consultation on Latin's inclusion in the languages diploma next year.In other words, demand is up and teacher supply is way down.
But she stressed: "It is for schools to decide whether it should be included in the curriculum."
Figures published earlier this year showed the number of non-selective state secondary schools in England teaching Latin rose from 200 in 2000 to 471 last year.
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