The Professional Teacher
Support for teaching professionals in the classroom and beyondFailure of the Troops to Teachers scheme
21st February 2016
I was astonished to read this last week that just 28 ex-Servicemen had qualified to become teachers under the government's flagship "Troops to Teachers" scheme, established by every teacher's favourite politician, Michael Gove, who had hoped for 2000 graduates by now, after spending over £4m on the scheme.
Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.
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