Kate Bohdanowicz

It’s been four weeks since I left the worst job. It was a part-time teaching position – my first after completing my PGCE in post-compulsory education. I was there for almost two years and in that time…

AS we’re eight days into 2015, it’s possibly a little too late to say: ‘Happy New Year’, but still perfectly acceptable for ‘Happy Newish Year’. So Happy Newish Year reader (or readers if my mum is…

According to Michael Gove, it’s a national scandal that 50% of teachers quit the profession within five years. I agree. But as an NQT I have no idea whether I’ll last the course. And if I do leave,…

Is it me or is teaching everywhere? It’s almost almost like teaching is the new rock and roll. 

Hot on the heels of the TV programme, Educating Yorkshire is the fly-on-the-wall documentary…

I spent half-term working six days on the features desk of a national newspaper. It was great. Not only did it boost the coffers in a way that my eight-hours a week teaching job doesn’t but also, after…