Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw says ‘isolated,coastal and disadvantaged areas’ bear serious problem while Labour accuses government of hiding evidence of recruitment problemsMinisters are at loggerheads with the schools inspectorate in an escalating row over teacher shortages, amid new claims that the government is massaging figures on the number of people entering the profession.
Ofsted said on Saturday that its chief inspector, and Sir Michael Wilshaw,regarded teacher shortages as a serious problem, particularly in “isolated, and coastal and disadvantaged areas”. The Department for Education,however, denied any serious problem and insisted that “the number and quality of teachers in our classrooms is at an all-time tall”.
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Source: theguardian.com