Would-be-teachers to get £20,000 to train PA

Education Minister Michael Gove is to announce plans to give first-class degree graduates £20,000 to train as teachers.

The bursary will be used in a desperate bid to improve the standards of teaching in state education.

The brightest graduates will be offered the payout to teach subjects such as science and maths where there is a shortage of teachers.

The plans are part of a series of overhauls to the teacher training system. Other moves will include would-be teachers undergoing personality tests to weed out the weakest applicants and to reduce drop-out rates, and the withdrawal of funding to graduates with a degree of less than 2:2.

Teacher training programmes will also renew their approach to behaviour management in a bid to improve discipline in schools.

What do you think?
Should our children's teachers be the top brains?
Or will graduates apply for teacher training for the wrong reasons?