Why are teachers employed then? Without the right qualifications?

Question

Read this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023924/More-half-secondary-school-teachers-England-qualified-subjects.html

What are your opinions on this?

Answer 1

i know that in the US teachers are sometimes employed under a provisional or temporary certification if they have met a majority of the requirements but there are 1 or 2 things holding up their paperwork...it is rare that a completely unqualified person would make it into the classroom...

Answer 2

Coming to the Minister's statement "We need to continue our successful recruitment drives," the fact of the problem lies here...

When might takes the place of 'right' the outcome is obvious... ill-equipped / nil-equipped staff...

Answer 3

First of all, I wish to introduce myself as a 21 year old Belizean student, striving to become a trained teacher in the Primary School.  Our education system is basically composed of the different denominations(Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Seventh day Adventist and other schools).  Here in Belize, in the past, many individuals were hired to become teachers due to deepness into the church system or politically aligned(what we call "pull-strings").  Few of the teachers today in the Primary school system here in Belize are trained or properly qualified teachers.  Today, also the are various college offering the Arts in Teacher Training Programmes through out my Country.

Answer 4

its not good.

i am currently doing GCSE's and am having to teach myself

-physics

-maths

-biology

-english

-englidh lit.

and my school came in the top 10% of all secondry schools in its ofsted report!

its disgraceful.

they seriousley need to sort themselves out.

or the next generation are all going to turn out as illiterate, non educated dilinquants.and we are going to be running the country one day.

Answer 5

My school is in the top 1% of secondary schools. With the best headteacher in England. Yet when my english teacher was off and we had  do a bit of coursework. Due in  before she got back we had this supply teacher that didnt no nothing about english lessons. We had this teacher fo RE aswell and he didnt  no nothin bout that either. Why cant schools just pay for better teachers. Luckily about my coursework it was just the 1st draft. Otherwise I would have been doomed!

Answer 6

One thing that makes a shortage on teachers is the small amount of money they make.  Not many people look at the world and say, "When I grow up, I want to be broke and unable to support myself."  Many of these teachers without the right "stuff" are aides, substitutes, and fill ins from where ever they can get them.  Don't get me wrong, college professors make some good money.  Lower education does not pay.

Answer 7

if you think thats funny then this will make you giggle.

In the two years it took me to do my GCSE we had an austrailian english teacher. He seemed nice thought didnt teach us much. He spent most of the time telling us about his first experinces of being in Britain- for example his first experience of seeing a hedgehog.

Needless to say we all did badly and after we had left he was removed as a teacher.

There were the tipical far-fetched reasons dreamed up by students that he was haveing an affair with a student and alot more rubbish but we finaly found out the truth.

When he actuly applied for the job no one checked if he had the correct qualifications- he had none. They just brought him over here and let him attempt to teach. He told us this himself when we saw him a mounth ago on his lunch break from his new job. (He now works at the local ford garage.) He now tells us he's going back to uni to now study to be a teacher.

Maybe he shud of thought of that before he mucked up our education!