Why being a maths teacher is not adding up for new recruits
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/13/maths-teacher-add-up-recruits?CMP=twt_gu Shortly after Michael Gove took the reins of education policy, he published a white paper entitled The Importance of Teaching , which made improvements in the teaching of maths and science national strategic priorities. Today we get some measure of how that strategy is working out. Up to 100,000 pupils in England and Wales face lessons in the key subjects of maths and physics by teachers with no qualifications in the subjects. Up to 30% of maths places on PGCE teacher training courses due to start in September remain unfilled, potentially leaving schools 700 recruits short next year. There is a similar problem with physics, where courses have attracted 386 fewer recruits than in 2012. The academic researchers behind the findings say that the government became complacent after 2010, believing that falling school rolls and the lack of alternative career options for young...