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NASUWT Conference: Teachers’ pension age is ‘unacceptably high’

TEACHERS cried out against the “unacceptably high pension age” in the profession yesterday.

In a series of speeches NASUWT delegates in Birmingham recounted their fears of working into their later years and trying to cope with an punishing work-life balance. 

Teacher Neil Fletcher from Barnsley told conference that his love of boules had drawn jokes about him looking like a pensioner. 

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