Academies can now hire unqualified teachers

[scary mum]

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Free schools and independents can already hire unqualified teachers.

[Pumpkin Pie]

Do you think this is a move in the wrong direction?

[scary mum]

I'm not sure . Having read the article I can see some of the arguments for it. As long as they can use correct grammar...

[mystery]

Despite the basic skills tests there are definitely qualified teachers who can't ....... me included.

[scary mum]

Can't teach, Mystery, or use correct grammar ?

There's correct grammar, but there's also downright incorrect use of English (see the other thread)

[KS10]

This qualified one has just quit the profession (before it kicked me out ).

[Pumpkin Pie]

When you think about it University lecturers don't undergo any formal teachers training, do they?

[Guest55]

Pumpkin Pie - yes a lot do - in fact I know there is at least one University where every single lecturer has to have this qualification.

[Pumpkin Pie]

Well, I've worked in several and that certainly wasn't the case!

Which University does require lecturers to have a teaching qualification?

[Guest55]

Oxford Brookes does - and possibly others.

I know I had a few lecturers that could have doen with some training rather then just reading out the notes they had taken as students 30 years before.