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A teachers’ union has warned against the use of unqualified staff in schools, claiming it is jeopardising children’s education.
Figures from a NASUWT survey suggested that numbers of unqualified teachers were increasing, with more than 60 per cent of the 4,600 members questioned saying they were working alongside staff who had not completed their training.
Two thirds respondents also told the union they felt the situation was worsening because schools were either unwilling or unable to pay higher salaries for qualified staff.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: “Parents no longer have the certainty, when they send their child to school, that they will be taught by qualified teachers. Chris Keates said the use of unqualified teachers was exploitative to staff and detrimental to children
“These figures show that the scale of the problem is now widespread. This is jeopardising the educational progress of children.
“It is abuse of unqualified staff who are being exploited by schools and it is denying teachers jobs.”
She accused the Coalition Government of “robbing children of a fundamental entitlement” when it abolished the requirement for academies and free schools to hire qualified teachers.
Ministers argued that the deregulation would allow the state sector to follow top independent schools in hiring subject experts with world experience, but Ms Keates called the move a “crude cost-cutting measure” that had “nothing to do with enhancing teaching and learning”.
The NASUWT, which is the largest teachers’ union in the UK, said that 65 per cent of respondents in its survey said unqualified staff had been employed since the rule change in 2012.
Warning over thousands of unqualified teachers 'jeopardising' children's education in Britain - Education News - Education - The Independent
A teachers’ union has warned against the use of unqualified staff in schools, claiming it is jeopardising children’s education.
Figures from a NASUWT survey suggested that numbers of unqualified teachers were increasing, with more than 60 per cent of the 4,600 members questioned saying they were working alongside staff who had not completed their training.
Two thirds respondents also told the union they felt the situation was worsening because schools were either unwilling or unable to pay higher salaries for qualified staff.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: “Parents no longer have the certainty, when they send their child to school, that they will be taught by qualified teachers. Chris Keates said the use of unqualified teachers was exploitative to staff and detrimental to children
“These figures show that the scale of the problem is now widespread. This is jeopardising the educational progress of children.
“It is abuse of unqualified staff who are being exploited by schools and it is denying teachers jobs.”
She accused the Coalition Government of “robbing children of a fundamental entitlement” when it abolished the requirement for academies and free schools to hire qualified teachers.
Ministers argued that the deregulation would allow the state sector to follow top independent schools in hiring subject experts with world experience, but Ms Keates called the move a “crude cost-cutting measure” that had “nothing to do with enhancing teaching and learning”.
The NASUWT, which is the largest teachers’ union in the UK, said that 65 per cent of respondents in its survey said unqualified staff had been employed since the rule change in 2012.
Warning over thousands of unqualified teachers 'jeopardising' children's education in Britain - Education News - Education - The Independent
