NASUWT: Another entitlement for children and young people bites the dust
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
4:50 PM
Commenting on the the changes to the Staffing Regulations to allow unqualified people to teach announced today by the Department for Education, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers' union, said:
"Until today parents were able to send their children to school safe in the knowledge that they were entitled to be taught by a qualified teacher.
"This is no longer the case.
"Another entitlement of children and young people bites the dust at the hands of this Secretary of State.”
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