Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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I took the liberty of asking Pascal Mariana about this and he says that even on this hours-per-adult measure, the Greeks still beat Germany, but the difference is marginal.
Well, you would think that is a good question, but what you really should be asking is what are all those long hours actually producing?
So I looked at the amount earned per hour in both countries.
And?
Well, by this method, Germany ranks ninth most productive by worker out of the OECD countries, while Greece drops to 25th.
No.
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Sometimes on this programme we're explaining the greater context or nuances of a number.
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That was Sam Friedman, who's the director of research at Teach First, a charity that trains teachers.
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The paper's got the story from a speech at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers Union, or ATL.
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Yeah, cleverly phrased, because the other 4 in 10...
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aren't necessarily getting teaching jobs and then quitting in disgust.
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The ATL has included newly qualified teachers who haven't got teaching jobs in the first place.
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For all we know, they took a year out, got a job in another industry or went into an educational job that isn't captured in these figures.
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Well, teaching in the independent sector or overseas.
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Where does Sam Friedman's 1 out of 10 figure come from then?
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He's got that from a table from the National College for Teaching and Leadership, which shows what happens to newly qualified teachers in state schools in England.
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OK, that would take 13 years.
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The majority of teachers stay in the job for well over a decade.
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Yeah.
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Now, one of them, the Independent, has come out and apologised for misreporting this figure.
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