Opinion

Teaching workloads and pay don’t add up

By 2017-11-07T12:10:00

Empty scales, weighed down on one side

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A bursary and training support eased my transition into teaching, but the work-life balance after two years made me look elsewhere

Find out why Ross Colman went from researcher, to chemistry teacher, to researcher in two years

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