Teachers, senior teachers, and principal teachers would have built-in status and the scales would offer well-defined career prospects instead of the ambiguous and often misleading snakes-and-ladders situation which at present exists.

His Mireille has had a snakes-and-ladders career, starting up, going down, then finally rising once more.

But his snakes and ladders career would soon take its biggest hit.

As the country continues to wrestle with one of the greatest upheavals to everyday life in recent memory, passenger numbers have had a turbulent 'snakes and ladders' journey - and continue to lag behind pre-pandemic levels.

Snakes and ladders

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