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Originally Posted by Unregistered
There seems to be a hiring freeze for STEM subjects, and they are still cutting headcounts. If you teach subjects like English, Mother Tongue, they are always short of teachers, got higher chance to as pgde or mid career.
For those subjects with hiring freeze, the newbies who come in are ALL scholars.
It seems like the number of scholarships cannot be cut (bad PR for parents/voters)
Got more spots for scholars than farmers
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It's a HR pipeline constraint. Most scholarships are given before uni. When a hiring freeze is implemented for any curriculum subject, there will still be a steady supply of scholars coming in who got their scholarships 5 years ago, so yes the ratio of scholars:direct hires will be very skewed, and this is observable amongst the
NIE cohort.
So the skewed scholar:direct hire ratio doesn't imply that HR is not cutting scholarships; it just means that if HR cuts scholarships you can only see the effects 5 years later.