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27-Feb-08 11:10 [Research]
Teaching unions are 'blocking education reform' Research from an independent think-tank has revealed that teaching unions are blocking the education system being reformed.
The report has claimed that there needs to be changes to the employment of teachers, curriculum performance tables and regulations concerning discipline.
Richard Tice, who wrote the report for Reform, said: "The extent to which the influence of teaching unions permeates the whole of the schools' activity was surprising to me."
He added that teachers' conditions of service are agreed at a national level and between teachers' unions and employers and this means that unions are "the blockers of reform, instead of organisations that support teachers to do a good job".
In the report it is claimed that it can take up to a year to let go a teacher who is not performing up to the standard.
The National Union of Teachers has dismissed the report, labelling it "claptrap".
Reform was established in 2002 and aims to promote radical reform in the public sector.
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