is a teacher a civil servant?

Answer 1

In theory I would answer yes because
everyone paid by the state is a 'civil' servant
so state teachers are.....

Answer 2

they're not ruled by the civil service code of conduct - e.g. they can be a member of a political party, so in the strictest sense they're not. Civil servants work for government departments - schools, like hospitals, are the delivery units of the actual departments. Although teachers work for the state (assuming we're talking about a state school teacher) they're not classed as a civil servant by the civil service code.

Answer 3

If the teacher works for a public school system, then Yes. A teacher that works in a charter school, private school, or religious school would be considered just an employee not a civil servant.

Answer 4

No a teacher is not a civil servant. They are just bullied and constrained by the civil servants of the Department for Education and Skills. Those working at the department are forced by their masters to implement nutty schemes by people who have little understanding of education apart from the maths of league tables!

If you were thinking of blaming the teachers, DON'T. They have enough problems from both inside and outside the schools.

Be grateful you have any teachers left on the pittance they are paid in State schools.

Answer 5

No, a teacher is a teacher or was. A teacher ranks higher than a civil servant, public servant or educator. That the system has reduced them to clock punching morons is not their fault. Even so they still rank higher than civil servants, public servants or educators.

Answer 6

No a teacher is a public servant - they are employed by a local education authority (for community schools) and directly by the Governing Body for Foundation (such as Catholic or Church of England Maintained or Aided) or Public/Private Schools.

Answer 7

a teacher is not a servant - in fact a master,
and anything but civil.

Answer 8

As an ex-secondary school teacher and by the evidence located on the Local Government and Civil Service websites, Teachers can be defined as been Local Government Officers and not Civil Servants.

The Local Government jobs website http://www.lgjobs.com/profiles/teacher.cfm defines the role of a teacher as a Local Government Officer:

Most schools are funded through local government or are grant maintained. There are currently over 470,000 teachers working in schools run by local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales. They teach around seven million pupils in approximately 27,500 secondary and primary schools. A teacher's main aim is to build a relationship with pupils that brings out the best in them and makes them receptive to ideas and knowledge.

According to the Civil Service Recruitment Website http://www.careers.civil-service.gov.uk/index.asp?txtNavID=114&635132= the Department of Education and Skills govern the training of people who wish to become qualified and registered teaching professionals and currently practicing teachers

Put simply, departments of which the Department of Education and Skills work with the government to formulate policies, while our agencies deliver them. We have civil servants at every level, carrying out essential work in all kinds of areas - from advising on pensions, investigating fraud or formulating the policy that drives nursery education. Local Government is classed as one of those departments.

I hope that this clarifies this for you.

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Answer 9

no a civil servant works for the government I am a teacher and wish we were classed as civil servants and then we would get the perks and pensions!

Answer 10

No, a civil servant is a employee of the UK government. A teachher normally not.