Cameron: Teaching should be elitist

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i could not agree less but more....


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David Cameron has set out plans to attract the brightest graduates into teaching, with an offer to pay off student loans and provide bonuses for those who perform best in the classroom.


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Launching the Tories' draft education manifesto in south London, Mr Cameron said he wanted to take a "brazenly elitist" approach to improving teaching standards, by barring the profession to anyone who does not have a 2.2 degree or better and making it into "the noble profession".

He also announced plans for a Teach Now programme to allow people to transfer from professions such as banking and the law into teaching, saying "only the best professionals with the best qualifications need apply".

Mr Cameron said he would make it easier for headteachers to pay more to teachers who work longer hours and produce results in the classroom - and to fire those who perform badly.

And he also promised tougher discipline, with teachers given powers to search pupils, confiscate items and remove disruptive children. Schools will be given the final say over expulsions and teachers will be protected against false allegations of abuse, he said.

Mr Cameron said a Tory government would "renew the promise of a good education for all in our country".

He said: "The straightforward truth is that there aren't enough good schools in our country, and we're failing far too many of our children.

"Four in ten children leave primary school unable to read, write and add up properly. Half of pupils do not get five good GCSEs including English and maths. And we're slipping down the world league tables in maths and science.

"We can't go on like this. If we carry on excusing this kind of failure, we face a future where our most stubborn social problems get worse, not better, and where our economy gets left behind, as countries out-educate and out-compete us. So nothing else will do - we need big change in the way we do education in our country."

He said the key to boosting educational performance was improving the standards of teaching. "When a child steps through those school gates for the very first time, the most important thing that will determine if they succeed is not their background, or the curricula, or the type of school, or the amount of funding, it's who the teacher is," he said.