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ERIC Number: EJ671375
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003
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Private Sector Provision of Supply Teachers: A Case of Legal Swings and Professional Roundabouts.
Grimshaw, Damian
Journal of Education Policy, v18 n3 p267-88 May-Jun 2003
Explores issues related to the increasing role of private agencies in provision of supply teachers across Britain's schools. Draws on 60 interviews with mix of supply teachers, schoolteachers, and employees from two branches of large teacher-supply agency. Concludes that new models of providing temporary teaching cover are needed to address problems of escalating costs and quality standards. (Contains 46 references.)(Authors/PKP)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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