FOI: 1in 40 free school teachers are unqualified

Belfast Telegraph: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/unqualified-teacher-figure-revealed-29867538.html

"Around one in 40 teachers in mainstream free schools are unqualified, figures released to the Press Association under the Freedom of Information Act showed. But the figures varied widely from school to school, with many only hiring qualified teachers while at others more than three quarters of their teachers were unqualified."

26 of the 1,029 teachers did not hold qualified teacher status (QTS), excluding those teachers who qualified overseas and those who were trainees.
Individual cases included Trinity School in Sevenoaks, Kent, which opened in September this year, said seven of its nine teachers were unqualified. At Discovery New School in Crawley, West Sussex, which was ordered to close its doors on April 4 earlier this month (DEC), five of the school's seven teachers were unqualified, the figures showed.