Feedback - May 2012
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We've had some great feedback on last issue's Endpoint on teacher training by Vanessa Kind.
Alan Crooks wrote:
I can only agree. For example, I can recall from my time in research a PhD student with a first class Honours degree in physics coming to work in the lab. She didn't know how to make a 1 molar solution!
Duncan Armour joined in the debate:
There are lots of issues. For example, twenty years ago when I did my degree the number of students gaining a first class degree on each course was far fewer than would today. So as the current system now provides bursaries based on the class of first degree awarded, older potential teachers are discriminated against as they are far less likely to have got a first. And yet these experienced people are exactly who we should be desperate to attract into teaching.
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