ABSTRACT
Two-thirds of secondary schools had difficulty in recruiting maths teachers. Reasons given for leaving are constant teacher bashing, high-pressure accountability, excessive workload and relentless pace of change. Therefore, the post-ERA education system seems now to be in much need of further reform. There is now a bewildering variety of schools, each with distinctive forms of governance, funding arrangements and control over admissions. Teacher collaboration and curriculum development have been made possible across schools and colleges. Vocational education is essential, but, as the Wolf Report showed, much was of low standard and did not provide the necessary link between the hopes of students and the needs of employers. The higher education system has grown and changed, partly as a result of specific reports, but in particular because of much wider access and differentiation of higher education functions.
