I’m at loss to know why a university professor with a PhD should be obliged to sit a GCSE in Maths simply to tick a bureaucratic box (which really happened).
Ed Balls “Off with her head!” may have brought no regrets to him, but it has cost the country several hundred thousand pounds more than if normal capacity procedures had been followed
Whether it is on energy prices, education, the criminal justice system or industrial relations, Labour remains entrenched on the side of vested interests and unions.
Asked five times if he would rule out sending his own children to a school with unqualified teachers Tristram Hunt repeatedly refused to answer.
Opportunity is the theme which links Conservative policies on tax, education and housing.
The Deputy Prime Minister is incapable of deciding whether he trusts headteachers or wants to dictate to them.
Also: SNP accuse Labour of stealing credit for public spending spree. And Belfast commemorates the nine victims of the 1993 Shankill Road bombing…whilst republicans unveil a plaque to the bomber.
The real qualification to be a teacher is knowing the subject and being able to put it across.
State school can have class teachers teach modern languages who have absolutely no experience speaking the language at all. According to Nick Clegg it is okay.
Ofsted’s leaked report on Al-Mahdina School in Derby is the most damning in the organisation’s 20-year history.
Within a day, Tristram Hunt was denouncing them as a “dangerous ideological experiment which has been allowed to run completely out of control.”
Ultimately, there must always be a national standard, in schools or elsewhere – even if this is simply to ensure that the law of the land is applied.
One of the best ways to improve the cost of living is by improving skills. It means that those looking for work will get better jobs, and better pay.
We can assume that genetics influence intellectual capacity, as they do everything else, but we don’t yet know how, or how they interact with other factors.
The truth is that some unqualified teachers won’t be able to step up to the mark – but the same will transpire for every new cohort of freshly qualified teachers too.