Pros
Finishing at 4:30, although by then you are ready to get out of there. Doing the best you can to help young people despite all of the barriers put inyour way by Nova.
Kontras
Dodgy practices that result in funding being taken back mid year consequently causing redundancies and hours being cut for tutors and support staff. Centre managers who will lie to senior management to save their own skin and push the real workers under the bus while taking credit for ideas and good working practices that are not there’s. Pointless cluster managers who just add to a top heavy management structure while hard working employees lose their jobs. Constant high turnover of staff due to the way they are treated by management. Pointless 3 week induction periods for staff that teach them nothing but bad practices in the centres they visit and from the staff that they shadow. Inconsistent IQA support that results in sub standard grades for teaching staff. Unrealistic targets and bonus schemes that will never be met. Learners are just pound notes, if it’s considered that a learner will not achieve they are justified to a level lower in their English and maths and moved on to another provider as soon as adequate funding has been claimed. Learners with additional needs are mixed with other learners even though funding is still claimed for small groups and one to one support. Unqualified teaching staff are left to supervise learners (who’s classes are double the size they should be) due to tutor shortage therefore no learning actually takes place.