'Hire teens as help for teachers' SCHOOLS.Byline: By BOB ROBERTS Political Editor LABOUR wants 16-year-old school leavers hired as classroom helpers. Children's Secretary Ed Balls told MPs he would like 4,000 teens to become apprentice A person who agrees to work for a specified time in order to learn a trade, craft, or profession in which the employer, traditionally called the master, assents to instruct him or her. teaching assistants next year. He said: "If the Ministry of Defence takes apprentices why can't young people become apprentice teaching assistants or in the NHS NHS abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service , orderly nurses." Mr Balls, speaking ahead of a Bill to secure apprenticeships for all, said later: "We can't require schools to do this...but I think we could have 4,000 of 35,000 apprenticeships in schools or early years." Apprentices would work alongside teachers, sometimes overseeing classes. But Christine Blower of the National Union of Teachers said: "This is ill-thought out. Assisting apprentices will pose too much of a distraction Distraction Divination (See OMEN.) Porlock a “person from Porlock” interrupted Coleridge while he was recollecting the dream on which he based “Kubla Khan”. [Br. Lit.: Poems of Coleridge in Magill IV, 756] for teachers." CAPTION(S): APPRENTICE PLAN Ed Balls |
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