UK: Row over planned school staffed by ex-forces personnel
4th September 2011
A think-tank behind the proposal says that teachers will have to have a degree in their chosen subject, but that US research shows those with little or no classroom training performed as well as those who were fully certified.
It was described as “ridiculous” by Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.
Note that the objection is not that the instructors don’t know their subject, but that the instructors haven’t had the appropriate ticket-punching by the Education Establishment, and might even — the horror! — not belong to the Union.