Industry News

Tories outline teaching reforms

Posted on 3rd July 2009

For Parents

For Student/Child

For Schools

Discounted goods for you and your child, for school and home

Those wanting to work in the classroom at state or private schools may find it harder to qualify under new Conservative proposals.

Shadow children's secretary Michael Gove has announced plans to reform training schemes, particularly in the areas of maths and science.

"Good as our teachers are, they must be better," he said.

Under Tory plans, trainees would not be allowed to re-sit literacy and numeracy tests as many times as they need to and the Initial Teaching Training would be made "more stretching".

Primary educators, meanwhile, would need to be educated to B level rather than the current C threshold, while a 2:2 final degree mark minimum would be set for those wanting to study for their PGCE.

Mr Gove's remarks follow a speech by the Prince's Teaching Institute's course director Bernice McCabe earlier this week about the teaching of maths and science.

She voiced concerns of organisations in the field that there is a lack of solid content on the curriculum. ADNFCR-921-ID-19249715-ADNFCR