With the prevalence of Teaching Assistants increasing around the world, @RobWebster_ suggests the establishment of a research network and invites expressions of interest #TeachingAssistants #Paraprofessionals #EERAblog #EdResearch #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/internationalising-research-on-tas/

In response to the growing prevalence of Teaching Assistants globally, @RobWebster_ calls for the establishment of a research network and invites expressions of interest #TeachingAssistants #Paraprofessionals #EERAblog #EdResearch #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/internationalising-research-on-tas/

Want to help striking TAs at McGill who've been fired or suspended from their other campus positions for participating in the strike? Here are a couple of mutual aid links for funds to support students facing financial hardship.

The #Tories degrading of public services:

#Teachers were to be 'helped' by #teachingassistants, but they increasingly took on more & more jobs fully qualified teachers might have been expected to do normally;

Now we find that in the #Ambulance service, around one third of responses are by first responders, not #paramedics... again something intended to ease pressure has become part fo the normal service.

First responders are being put in a difficult situation by the shortage of paramedics!

Potentially putting the 'cat among the pigeons' Local Councils have made an offer to a range of lowest paid council #workers that works out at (according to the FT) 'an increase of 9.42 % this year & 22% over the two years since April 2021 for the lowest paid, with a 2023 uplift of 3.88%for top earners'.

This is partly driven by an increasing #workforce crisis in the council/public sector which has seen #TeachingAssistants, #careworkers & others leaving for better paid private sector jobs...

The long experiment to reduce #education costs by transferring tasks to #TeachingAssistants is clearly coming apart as more & more TAs in the #CostOfLivingCrises give up jobs they love, as they can be paid more at a #supermarket, leaving special needs pupils marooned, the remaining #teachers more over stretched & schools facing a #workforce challenge they do not have the budgets to solve.

Yet another case of treating staff as a cost that needs to be reduced, not a resource to be invested in!