The Manchester Evening News reports:
A company which re-trains people as teachers in Greater Manchester is to close after the government cut its funding.
Storm has helped around 900 ‘talented’ people in the region to become primary and secondary school teachers.
The firm, which employs three full-time staff in east Didsbury, has placed trainees in classrooms in Stockport, Salford, Tameside, Trafford, Oldham, Rochdale and Manchester.
Its 12-month graduate training programme allows successful candidates to learn on the job while earning a £15,000 salary.
But in a letter to trainees and participating schools, company chairman Antony Edkins said cuts are forcing the group to start winding down in August.
He wrote: “Storm’s income is wholly dependent on the funding of allocated places. The number of places has reduced year- on-year. The advice received is that places for providers such as Storm are likely to be much less in the years to come. As a result, there are insufficient funds as from next year with which to operate.”
The company will not be able to accept new recruits, he added, but existing trainees can complete their placements.
So the Government (rightly) wants to get unemployed people into work, yet cuts the funding of a firm that has helped 900 people get jobs.
Bizarre.
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