Greenock TelegraphMedia coverage · 28 Dec 2018Having fewer schools and making better use of our buildings has reduced the overall teacher numbers.
Scottish Government figures showed Inverclyde's teacher numbers fell from 936 in 2006 to 743 in 2017, a drop of 193. The council put the fall down to school mergers under its £270m school estate programme and said pupil-teacher ratio commitments were still met.
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Having fewer schools and making better use of our buildings has reduced the overall teacher numbers.
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- Nearly 200 fewer teachers are working in Inverclyde compared with a little over a decade ago
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