Teachers: 'Low Pay Putting Education At Risk'

Teaching organisations say their profession faces a national recruitment crisis, with hundreds of thousands of students taught by staff not qualified in the subject they are teaching. Six organisations - two for head teachers and four representing teachers - have joined forces to warn that the recruitment crisis will worsen if teachers' pay remains too low to make the career attractive to graduates, with science and maths teachers the hardest to recruit. Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: "The numbers applying for initial teacher training courses are rapidly declining and more teachers left the profession last year than in any previous year.

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