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The shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt has said teachers should be properly licensed like lawyers and doctors, with regular checks on their performance in the classroom to ensure high standards of teaching.
Under new proposals by the Labour party, teachers will be licensed and will be sacked if they fail tough checks to test their abilities on the basis of a new system in case they will come to power in next government.
Mr. Hunt has said: “Just like lawyers and doctors they should have the same professional standing which means re-licensing themselves, which means continued professional development, which means being the best possible they can be.
“If you’re not a motivated teacher – passionate about your subject, passionate about being in the classroom – then you shouldn’t really be in this profession.”
Mr. Hunt has pin-pointed the fact: “If we want to re-professionalise the teachers it would be crazy not to do it. If teachers are not re-licensed they will not be allowed to teach.”
Labour had to skip a similar idea, termed as “classroom MOTs” by former schools secretary Ed Balls before the 2010 general election after facing union opposition.
However, the fresh plans have been greeted by the NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers), Britain’s biggest teaching union, who said the move could be “a basis on which progress could be made” if it indicated the return of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). QTS is the requirement which was scrapped by the coalition government for academies to hire teachers in 2012.
While the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), Christine Blower has shown serious concerns about the fresh proposal to introduce licensing for teachers as she has told: “The fact is that teachers are very highly observed. Many of our members describe themselves as being surveilled the whole time.”
“There will be a good many teachers who will just see this as another hurdle.”
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