Teaching standards ‘should be improved’
Teaching standards in schools need to be significantly improved, according to one expert.
The Campaign for Real Education, an initiative formed in 1987 to press for higher standards and more parental choice in state education, suggested that more needs to be done to raise the bar for all teachers to ensure that all schoolchildren are getting the same standard of education.
"If the teachers haven't got good standards of English and maths it makes it difficult to get the pupils up to a decent standard. It is quite a worrying problem," said Nick Seaton, secretary of the campaign.
This follows data released by the Scottish Qualification Authority which found that many pupils who sat the standard grade and higher exams this year did not meet the required level of basic spelling and grammar.
Mr Seaton added that low standards of test results in primary and secondary schools point to a clear failure on the school's part and that if students who have been taught poorly end up going into teaching later in life the cycle of below-standard education will continue.
