I done two mornings and after school on Friday, I would rush home and go collecting money in off the guys customers. He give me £55 every week. As a 14 year old in the 90's, that wasn't to be sniffed at. I think I was paying about £1.60 for 10 ciggies, so it went a fair way, for me.
Think the point he is making is that the difference between a Student Loan and a Normal Loan is that the requirement to pay a student loan back is contingent on the student earning above a certain amount, and any outstanding debt may be cancelled if you haven't repaid it by a certain date/age. My kids were trying to get me to repay theirs early and I politely told them both to **** off. There is absolutely no point. It doesn't affect their credit ratings, or count as debt when they come to take out a mortgage, the interest rates are good and, as its cancelled if they die, I would be really pissed off if I had paid it off and then the pair of them popped off before me, and escaped from paying my funeral expenses. You need to treat your daughter with the same firm hand - it's what all good Tories would do. I would vote for any government that dropped student fees and put us back to Means Tested Grants. Its wrong that some students should be denied a University Education because they are worried about student debt.
I think historical interest rates were low. The new student loans have been sold off to private companies and i believe the interest is quite pricey on these ones
If at the end of university they walk into a decent paid job, they'll barely receive a full wage in their lives because they'll be deductions, each and every month. I'm a soft touch with my daughters and they know it. I'll crumble at some point and dig deep.
Definitely do not work the shortest hours, factually inaccurate. I don't even need to fact check any of that though as I know full well Carole Malone will not have.
More pertinently I do agree teachers shouldn't be on strike, I don't think it benefits anyone or any cause. My personal preference would have just been a work to rule type resolution wherein teachers just did the 830 to 340 kind of 36 hours and refuse to attend any before or after school meetings, evenings or events, mark, plan, prepare pupil plans, respond to any parents, or any of the other weekly Ofsted (it only takes an hour) tasks, etc. Basically do the job that the Telegraph thinks we already do and shave 15 hours off our working week. If people complain then a point about workloads is made, if no-one notices then it would fix the profession overnight.
My wife is a full time secondary school language teacher at the top of her scale. Her work hours are 08.00 -15.00 every day. There's a lunch break in the middle of that. Wouldn't mind knowing which countries teachers work shorter hours, if only just to wind her up.
It's a profession rather than an hourly rate so there's not really a correct answer to that. Where I work lunch break either means a) leave your room and have to supervise kids or b) sit at your desk and get through work. Presumably depends on the school though. Most schools you're not meant to leave site as they need you around to help with pupils. We get 45 minutes in theory, doubt I've had more than 20 undisturbed minutes this academic year.
i just wondered as when i was a civil servant we weren't paid for lunch breaks . Really used to piss me off when people reckoned i had it easy working 37hrs a week when they worked 40 when in reality they had an hour paid lunch break .so in reality did 35 hrs.
The hours are hard to pin down really, I can only really speak of myself. On site from 815 until 430 ish Monday to Friday but will have 30-40 mins of not working. Worth noting when teaching there aren't gaps for toilet breaks or cups of tea (unlike my previous jobs). The main difference for me is that I used to do a couple of hours each night on top of that and certainly did do 60+ hours each week in my first few years. I don't do over 50 now ever, I'm more efficient and I simply refuse. I qualified as a solicitor in my 20s and found it very interesting that I did 10 hour days as a solicitor (with regular tea and toilet breaks and an hours lunch break when I used to go and explore Liverpool) and everyone used to assume it was really hard work and I must be tired from all the hours. I worked more hours a week as a trainee and new teacher (by easily 10+ hours per week) and most people I met assumed I left at 3pm and had long evenings of free time. Can only speak for myself though, maybe I'm doing it wrong!
