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Ensure that all teachers are qualified
Should all teachers be "qualified" teachers?
Conservative Education secretary Michael Gove has decided to bring academies into line with private schools and the government's flagship free schools, which can hire professionals such as scientists, engineers, musicians and linguists to teach even if they do not have not have qualified teaching status (QTS). http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/jul/27/gove-academies-unqualified-teaching-staff
Green Party Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett says that the Green Party will "work with the teaching unions, return all schools to local democratic control, reverse privatisation and ensure that all our children are taught by qualified teachers". http://nottingham.greenparty.org.uk/city.html
Labour "The surest way to raise standards in every lesson, in every school, is to improve the quality of teaching in the classroom. That begins with an end to David Cameron’s unqualified teachers policy" Source: Tristram Hunt, Shadow education secretary
Liberal Democrat Guarantee all teachers in state funded schools will be fully qualified or working towards Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Free schools and academies will not be allowed to employ unqualified teachers from September 2016.
Respect Party A qualified teacher for every class
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