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Hundreds teach despite failing to pass exams
TORY rules have let hundreds more teachers who failed to gain qualified status into classrooms, official figures revealed yesterday.
Department for Education figures showed that 13 per cent of last year’s final-year teacher trainees — around 4,650 people — were not awarded qualified teacher status (QTS), up from 11 per cent in 2011-12.
Of the failed trainees, 300 were working in teaching anyway, the figures showed.
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