The Government plans for changes to improve initial teacher training, just out for consultation, include bursaries of up to £20,000 for graduates with first class honours degrees in subjects where there are shortages of teachers – for example, maths, physics and chemistry.
Applicants for bursaries will need to hold a minimum of a 2.2 degree in order to apply for the schemes, which will start in 2012/13.
Education secretary Michael Gove said, ‘Our teachers are trained in some of the best institutions in the world, but the schools which employ these teachers do not get enough say in how they are trained.
Nor does the training focus sharply on the techniques teachers most need, such as behaviour management and the effective teaching of reading.
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