Wales teachers: Extra cash offered to attract BAME staff
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Wales teachers: Extra cash offered to attract BAME staff
Wales teachers: Extra cash offered to attract BAME staff
Cash incentives are to be offered to help recruit more black, Asian and minority ethnic
(BAME) teachers in Wales.
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About 1.3% of teachers identify as being from an ethnic minority in Wales.
That compares to 12% of pupils, according to new education workforce stats.
Now the Welsh government has published a plan to promote teaching as a career
among BAME communities.
That will be adopted from 2022 and includes offering money to those who sign up to
train as teachers.
Similar packages already exist to attract Welsh-medium teachers, and teachers for
high demand subjects like maths and the sciences.
Those running initial teaching courses will be required to work towards getting
a certain percentage of trainees from BAME backgrounds.
Education and Welsh language minister, Jeremy Miles, said the current number of
ethnic minority teachers was "simply not good enough".
"That is why we are launching this much needed plan, so that we have a workforce
that better reflects the population of Wales," he said.
"Importantly, increasing diversity in schools should not only apply to areas where
there is a higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds, but across
the whole of Wales." |
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