SCOTTISH teachers are preparing the fightback against SNP plans to fast-track unqualified university graduates into schools.

The Scottish government reportedly decided last week to put its own version of the Teach First model out to tender.

In England and Wales, the Teach First social enterprise charity allows would-be teachers to bypass a year studying for a postgraduate diploma in education, instead giving them five weeks intensive training at university then landing them in a classroom expected to fulfil 80 per cent of a full timetable.