Call to retrain failing teachers.URGENT action is needed to retrain re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train more than 20,000 incompetent teachers, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the head of the body responsible for upholding professional standards. Keith Bartley, head of the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE GTCE General Trading & Contracting Establishment ), said that up to 24,000 underperforming teachers should be removed from their classrooms and put to work in neighbouring schools. He said it was unacceptable that only 46 teachers out of a workforce of half a million had been judged incompetent since 2001. Mr Bartley said: "We know we have the best-qualified teachers we have ever had," he said, "We are not talking about a system in crisis. "But there's a band of teachers who have more bad days than good." |
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