Published by British Journal of Sociology of Education, August 2019
SUMMARY
Academies now account for two thirds - 66 per cent - of all state secondary schools and 30 per cent of primary state schools. In 2012, the government extended the freedom to employ teachers without Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), already enjoyed by independent schools and free schools, to academies. The idea was to encourage schools to employ experts in their fields who might not have teaching qualifications but teaching unions feared the move would encourage schools to cut costs by employing cheaper, less-qualified staff. This University of Oxford study aimed to find out whether schools that become academies show a rise in the percentage of teachers without QTS.
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