Welsh government offers £5,000 more to student teachers from ethnic minorities

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1. Just about to qualify here in Ireland. A point was made to us to note how many ethnic minorities were in our course of hundreds. I don’t think we had any, I think there was 2 or 3 the year prior and their stories of racist abuse while on school placement were recanted to us.

   Ethnic minorities do not want to go into teaching (for very obvious reasons)

   All educator’s being homogenous does our students a disservice as they do not encounter diversity of approach and experience reflective of the demographics that make up their communities 

   I see no problem in incentivising ethnic minorities to get into teaching to make the demographic makeup of our educator’s more reflective of society

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