I had some truly awful teachers at my grammar school in Burnage, Manchester in the 1960s, particularly in mathematics and science. Some of my teachers were frightening. However, I was naturally ...

Schools are employing sixth- form maths teachers who don’t even have an A-level in the subject themselves, according to a survey. Amid a deepening recruitment crisis, half of the maths teachers in the ...

“There should be no such thing as boring mathematics” - Edsger W Dijkstra. Teaching mathematics can be challenging since almost all new concepts depend highly on the sound understanding of ...

According to the latest national statistics on School Workforce produced by the Department for Education, a third of teachers of Physics, Geography and German have no qualification higher than an ...