NASUWT: Coalition goverment’s teacher training proposal is ‘elitist and unnecessary’
Commenting on the release of the Good Teaching Training Guide, which says it will be much harder to recruit teachers in key subjects if funding is limited to graduates with a 2:2 degree or higher, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:
‘This report is yet more evidence to show the damaging affect of the Coalition Government’s elitist approach to education.
“There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that gaining a third class degree is going to mean somebody will be any less of a teacher than someone with a first class degree.”Only funding graduates with a 2:2 degree or higher is penny-pinching of the first order and sets an artificial barrier that is wholly unnecessary.
“The proposal to only fund graduates with a 2.2 degree or above to train as teachers but to allow others with a lower class degree to train is a spending cut by any other name.
“Restricting access to funded teacher training places has nothing to do with raising educational standards.
“Cuts to teacher training would limit educational opportunity and damage the quality of teaching in schools.
“It is important that teachers are well qualified, with good subject knowledge and expertise in the craft of teaching. The Coalition Government should be investing more and not cutting back on vital teacher training.”
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