Teachers with third class degrees? Camden's Tory education chief Andrew Mennear reveals concerns

 

CAMDEN'S Conservative education chief has hinted he supports the national party's idea of effectively hampering students who only achieve a third class degree at university from becoming teachers.

Party leader David Cameron said on Monday that government funds for training people who had failed to get higher level degree honour would be stopped under a Tory government.

Councillor Andrew Mennear, who has been in charge of Camden's schools since 2006, said: “There is a point in what he is saying. When I was growing up, a teacher we had said they only had got a 'D' in the old O-Level maths and from then the respect was gone. We thought: so why are you teaching us when you didn't even get an 'A-C' in one of the main subjects yourself?”

Mr Cameron said that he wanted teaching to become a more “noble” profession.

 

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Teachers with third class degrees?

Submitted by purplen8 on Tue, 2010-01-19 14:38.

And is it acceptable for someone (Andrew Mennear) to be in charge of Camden's schools when he obviously hasn't even got A - C in English Language? He says ' a teacher (singular noun) we had said they (plural) only had got a 'D'......' The position of 'only' is also incorrect. Pedantic maybe, but then I am a teacher!

Teaching degrees

Submitted by paulstpancras on Tue, 2010-01-19 13:03.

I had a teacher at my grammar school who had a double first from Cambridge or Oxford, I forget which.

He was very bright but useless as a teacher. I also had a teacher who had no degree just a teaching certificate. He was brilliant and 12 of us got grade one at GCE.

If your teacher had grade D it was at A level. A grade 4 (D?) was a pass and equivalent to today's A-C.

The Conservative policy would make sense if increased salaries went with the policy.

As it is, it is just another cheapskate policy trying to get something for nothing.

I approve of the 5 year Masters in Finland and the Finns pay teachers accordingly.

This proposal is just another Gove cock up.

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