Testing Teachers Is Admitting Inadequacy ; Never Mind the Bullock Plain Speaking From Ex-Teacher Brenda Bullock Education Matters

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The shocking response by Graham Holley, chief executive of the Training & Development Agency for Schools, to the recent report that teaching is in crisis, goes a long way towards explaining why the education system is nearing collapse. The report finds that less than 50 per cent of secondary school teachers teach a subject they have studied at university (and, therefore, ought to know something about), and that only 45 per cent of primary school teachers have two good A level passes.

Not only did he have the breathtaking effrontery to claim that teaching standards have never been higher, but, without a ghost of a smile, he asserts that teachers are required to pass skills tests in "numeracy, literacy and information technology."

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Testing Teachers Is Admitting Inadequacy ; Never Mind the Bullock Plain Speaking From Ex-Teacher Brenda Bullock Education Matters

Does it never dawn on him that entrants to a profession, with 11 years of compulsory education behind them and having passed a four year university d...

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