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Have you got your bank linked to your paypal is it's that you'll need to change.

Go into the resolution centre and open a dispute based on non-payment. If after another 4 days they don't pay close it and you'll get your selling fees refunded. You can set it to open and close automatically from account -> site preferances -> unpaid item assistant.

That is the fault of government of all hues and the emphasis that they have placed on league tables, which are easily manipulated by clever schools. My last one did just that.

What does exist, and it drives me nuts, is schools are teaching kids to pass exams and but not how to think. Kids are coming into FE with loads of good GCSEs but with no thinking skills at all. A real issue IMHO and one that government, unions, business etc recorgnise but are unsure how to fix. Functional Skills, we hope, may address it but I'm not holding my breath. Part of the problem is that the A* - C league tables carry so much weight they become all that matters.

The only spanking I saw us take was Huddersfield (A). We were cr@p in a few away games, especially Tranmere but EVERY team gets tanked once in a while or fails to turn up. At no stage were we "torn a new one" by anyone at SMS. The Brentford game, the worst I've ever seen Saints play, wasn't due to them, it was due to us.

But you moan that those of us that DO pay into our pension plans, which we have to do way more than a meagre 22 years to get, want to protect them. Yours isn't being cut, yours will still be final salary and you don't pay a single penny into it.

My pension is for 65 so ***** knows where you get 60 from. My wife's was 60 but has to be brought into line so that's going up as well. Some of you really do believe all the Daily Mail propaganda.

I spent 10 years in uniform and fought in the 1st Gulf War so don't come all Billy Big ******s as it carries no weight with me. Simple fact is that you paid not one penny into your gold plated, paid for by the tax payer, index linked, big fat lump sum, public sector pension yet moan that others want to protect theirs, which they paid into. Not that you're a hypocrite though.

Does anyone have the fixture list as a csv for googles calendar?

How much of your salary did you pay into your HM Forces pension? Zero is the answer and you've got the brass neck to mither.

There isn't any anymore and hasn't been for a few years, that's the point.

Agreed. Most teachers I know would be more than happy to see the cr@p ones turfed out. They make our job harder.

I lost my job and my licence to teach for 5 years hence why I moved into post 16 and where I'll stay despite being in a position to go back into pre-16 so yes, it's the same in the public sector. When out of prison I started off my career working in the private sector for a training company (they really rip the tax payer off) before going into FE and getting past the conviction proved a challenge and my professional body, much like the GTC, investiagted my status but they, like my current employer, know I'm bloody good at my job and that being inside has given a totally different outlook and I was cleared to teach and now run a dept in the highest rated post 16 provider in the region and I was rated outstanding. Not bad for an old lag. Our partner schools have laid off around 12% of their teaching staff, my wifes school 15%. We've also laid 15% off. There is no job security, especially post 16, those days are long gone, both pre and post 16.

I expect companies to pay tax in the same way I have to.

If they pro rata'd the pay and allowed us to take our holidays when we wanted to then I reckon 50%+ off my staff would (the young(er) ones with big mortgages). I wouldn't because I choose to work in the style I do.

Slight difference between being around for your 1st born arriving and squinnying about what the Doris will say if you go to a match on a day that only matters to insecure people.

Get a new missus.

F**k that, I'm taking my nipper. They should be exposed to the pure hatred as early as possible and a visit to that dog hole makes them understand how lucky they are.

Maybe we don't all feel as if "we're in it together" when the likes of Vodaphone can avoid billions in tax.

I'm comfortable with my salary, I don't do it for the money and I NEVER complain about it as I know that it's my choice to do the job, same way it's the choice that makes me give up some of my holiday for my students. That's the thing about being a good teacher, and I accept that there are some lazy, sh*t teachers, is that it has never been about money, holiday, perks etc, it's what we in our core. Old fashioned perhaps, but true nevertheless. That's why I'm proud to work with the people I do and why we've been nationally recognised and rewarded. Not bad for a convicted football hooligan with jail time. You've chosen your path with your above average salary and T&Cs yet feel it necessary to criticise others for their career choice and their T&Cs. Strikes me as being a tad sad really.

Bloody foreigners.

I'm go to work for one week of the Easter holidays, the May 1/2 term and 10 days before the students go back in September. I'm usually in around NY as well and I don't get paid for doing so. I do it to give my students the best chance I can of passing their exams. Easter and May are given over to extra lessons/revision/exam prep', August is to make sure everything is OK for September and NY is usually admin. I don't go in during the October or Feb' 1/2 terms as we are usually away. No one forces me to do it, I do it because my students matter to me.

Is that the Wednesday game?

Cuckoo, cuckoo.