But Jonathan Absalom, who is a Kent supply teacher, said he did not think the government had provided any evidence of the affordability of the pension scheme.

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He says it might suggest schools are concerned about how classes in schools with few ethnic minority pupils would react to a black or Asian supply teacher.

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If a supply teacher is employed for 12 weeks they are entitled - under Agency Worker Regulations - to the pay of a permanent member of staff doing the same job.

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The former supply teacher was jailed for three-and-a-half years.

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Economist Jesse Rothstein has a new paper where he constructs a model of teacher labor supply and how it interacts with education reform policies meant to affect teacher quality.

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The Dakar Conference will just be another talking shop if governments are allowed to give lame excuses about shortcomings in girls education, run-down schools, inadequate teaching-learning aids, poor teacher supply, and funding.

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The swarm of runners nearing the finish line as the clock ticked toward 3 in the afternoon included a medical supply salesman, a teacher's aide, a financial analyst in her 55th marathon, and a cop who would become the last recorded finisher of the 117th Boston Marathon.

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Mr Hamilton, of Offerton Close, Sunderland, a former technician at Newcastle University's Medical School, had retrained as a teacher and did supply work throughout the North East.

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