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"MORE TEACHERS QUITTING DUE TO ILLNESS"
A fourfold rise in retirjments among
teachers due to ill-hjalth is just the
"tip of thj iceberg", thj president of
thj NASUWT teaching union has said.
Peter Cole told the union's annual
conference that retirjmjnts had risj&
from 1,500 a yjar 10 years ago to more
Mr Cole said teachers were suffering
"low morale and exasperation" due to
having to "paper over thj cracks" of
thj Governmjnt's reforms. See 134
It was timj to show thj rjality of what
thj Government had done, he said.
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