Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has called on ex-teachers to sign up from Monday to help with COVID-19 staff shortages in the new year. Former teachers who are available to return to the classroom should apply on the Get Into Teaching website, he said. They should ideally start the process before Christmas Eve to be ready to join the workforce from January, he added. The plea comes amid reports that some schools are experiencing very low attendance among teachers and pupils ahead of the Christmas break. The highly-transmissible Omicron variant is expected to cause even higher staff absence levels in the spring term, and headteachers’ unions have warned of possible disruption to in-person lessons. School leaders and academy chain chiefs are preparing for the possibility of having to switch to online learning next term—and some pupils have been asked to take laptops home before Christmas just in case. The government is …
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