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Teacher recruitment: must do better

Workforce planning is both an art and a science. Tailoring numbers of appropriately qualified schoolteachers to the number of posts involves inspired guesswork about both future teacher and pupil numbers.

Nobody is suggesting this is an easy subject but the report card on successive Scottish governments to have grappled with it must be, “Could do better”.