Cost of living: Can schools make the budget add up?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily with Niall Paterson, head teachers Glyn Potts, from Newman Catholic College in Oldham, and Roger Farley, from Westminster Primary School in Blackpool, share their concerns for the education system.
Plus Robert Halfon, the Conservative chairman of the education select committee, and Justine Greening, who was education secretary from 2016 to 2018, discuss the state of schools and what the next prime minister needs to do to support the education system.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews Producer: Alys Bowen
Podcast Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:33.7 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:35.6 | Fine, she'd say. |
| 0:37.1 | She clearly wasn't. After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found |
| 0:42.3 | this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.8 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in. |
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| 0:56.6 | Train others. |
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| 1:01.9 | It's not the easiest thing, being the son of two teachers. |
| 1:06.4 | Post friends were outside enjoying days off, thanks to snow or local elections. |
| 1:11.7 | Dearest mummy had me sat at the table doing extra homework, though I'll admit it did take me |
| 1:17.0 | until the age of eight to realise that not everyone's mum and dad had the entirety of the school |
| 1:22.5 | holidays off. But I also learned at a similar age, just how difficult the job can be. |
| 1:28.4 | My dad became a head teacher at a time when viral pandemics were found only in history books. |
| 1:34.0 | He certainly wrestled with his budget, but long before the words cost of living were immediately followed by crisis. |
| 1:41.7 | But what can any head teacher do when pupils, and perhaps even teachers, |
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