Teachers say schools are using increasingly desperate strategies to "paper over the cracks" caused by staff shortages. Unqualified staff are being used as teachers, class sizes are rising and the curriculum is being tweaked to fit the staff available, says the National Union of Teachers (NUT). The crisis is adding to the stress on teachers, according to a report the NUT commissioned from Liverpool University.
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