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Teachers should stop being so 'negative' about their jobs as it risks 'putting off' others, the new head of Ofsted warned yesterday.

Sir Martyn Oliver cautioned against talking too much about 'the stresses' and 'things that make us want to give up' as it could become 'all-encompassing'.

Speaking at the annual conference of the headteachers' union NAHT, he urged them to 'talk about the positives a little more'.

His comments come amid cross-union campaigns about teacher pay, excessive workload and claims of inadequate funding, while a recruitment crisis saw only half the number of trainees signing up last year compared with

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