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Stop using unqualified teachers, NASUWT tells government
Survey finds teaching, planning and grading by unqualified staff on the rise in nearly two-thirds of schools

Teaching union NASUWT called on the government yesterday to stop using unqualified staff in schools as a cheap alternative to teachers.

Tory rules allowing unqualified staff control of classrooms are responsible and must be reversed, the union said.

NASUWT carried out a survey of 7,000 teachers which found that 65 per cent felt that schools are increasingly using the measures to shrink costs.

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