The University College Union general secretary has called on the Government to “finally address underlying issues such as casualisation, the lack of a defined career progression and inadequate funding” in a Guardian article about employment conditions and the Teaching Excellence Framework. Claiming that more than 100,000 teaching staff (more than half of the total), are in insecure employment and tens of thousands are on hourly paid contracts, Hunt said: “although there are many, many great teachers within the casualised workforce, their achievements are in spite of, rather than because of, the system that employs them”.