Sentences with phrase «teacher trainees last»

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In December last year, a Deputy Minister of Education in the erstwhile NDC government, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the abolition of the teacher trainee allowances had increased enrolment in the colleges of education by 63.8 per cent.

According to President Akufo - Addo, the same people who are saying his administration has done nothing over the last 16 months in office are the same persons who, prior to the 2016 elections, stated that free SHS was not possible, and described as lies the pledge to restore the nursing and teacher trainee allowances.

Last year, a trainee teacher joined the school where I was a supply teacher.

In December last year, Ofsted reported that the number of new teachers had dropped by 16 per cent over the last five years, with 8,000 fewer trainees in secondary schools alone.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «It is shocking that at a time of rising pupil numbers the Department for Education has missed its teacher trainee recruitment targets for the last four years.

As revealed by Schools Week last October, thousands of trainee teachers have been effectively barred from qualifying every year by the rule, which was brought in by Gibb himself in 2012.

Following revision last year, the teacher supply model only identifies an estimate of the number of trainees needed for postgraduate courses.

But the government has encouraged a shift away from the higher education route, which IFS said had been reflected through new school - based routes being taken by 20 per cent of trainee teachers in the last academic year.

I am NOT a professor of education, an OFSTED inspector, a publisher or a former headteacher, but I do remember what it is like to be a trainee teacher, an NQT and a busy classroom teacher, as I was all of these in the last few years.

The good news is that the share of new trainees achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)(including Teach First figures) has remained high and broadly stable at 91 per cent, and has even increased very slightly over the last three years.