I’m old enough to remember when Keir Starmer promised that he would end the "one nation experiment in open borders," and focus on cultivating home-grown talent.
But now that the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) has announced that teaching roles are facing record shortages (6 in 1,000) — double the vacancy rate before COVID lockdowns began in 2020, and six times higher than the NFER’s first recording of vacancies in 2010 — some are demanding the government recruit more staff from abroad.
I joined GB News this morning to explain that these short-term solutions neither work, nor are temporary — and in fact have lasting, damaging economic and cultural consequences.
Teaching standards, and qualifications of all kinds, are inferior in Nigeria and India, where we have sourced most post-Brexit migrants. (See: the "industrial-scale" fraud and abuse in the NHS now.)
My evidence for this?
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