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A new vision: Transforming the teacher image

Too many people still view teaching as a ‘fall-back’ profession that anyone can do. Harry Hudson says it is time to change the narrative and sell a new vision to the public of education in the 21st century


Covid has at last opened people’s eyes to two inescapable facts. First, teaching is a challenging and highly skilled job (it turns out that it is not as simple as “anyone can do it”); and second, when there aren’t enough teachers, the whole of the rest of society feels it.

Of course, neither of these will come as news to anyone already in education. But that’s not the point. Rather, as millions of people have come unprecedentedly up close and personal with education in the last two years, these realisations have the potential to be game-changers for how teaching is perceived by society more broadly.

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