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Vol. 754 Tuesday No. 12 24 June 2014 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDER OF BUSINESS Questions Schools: Teachers ..........................................................................................................................1117 Food Poisoning .............................................................................................................................1119 Housing: Underoccupancy Charge ..............................................................................................1121 Personal Independence Payment..................................................................................................1124 European Union (Information, etc.) Bill [HL] First Reading .................................................................................................................................1126 Council Tax Valuation Bands Bill [HL] First Reading .................................................................................................................................1126 Deregulation Bill First Reading .................................................................................................................................1126 Health: Patient Safety Statement .......................................................................................................................................1126 Student Visas Statement .......................................................................................................................................1130 Scotland: Independence Motion to Take Note ...................................................................................................................1139 Scotland: Independence (Constitution Committee Report) Motion to Take Note ...................................................................................................................1234 Grand Committee Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 Motion to Consider ..................................................................................................................GC 79 Legislative Reform (Clinical Commissioning Groups) Order 2014 Motion to Consider ..................................................................................................................GC 84 Defibrillators Question for Short Debate.......................................................................................................GC 89 Education Institutions: Autonomy and Accountability Question for Short Debate.....................................................................................................GC 104 Written Statements......................................................................................................................WS 107 Written Answers ...........................................................................................................................WA 137 £4·00 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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Bachelor of Education degree courses was around, or even less than, two Es at A-level? The teachers thus 2.30 pm qualified often do more harm than good. Will the noble Lord tell your Lordships what the Government Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Birmingham. are doing about those who are still in the system? I take the opportunity to congratulate the Government on the rest of the noble Lord’s first Answer. Schools: Teachers Question Lord Nash: There is no doubt that teachers who may not have had a particularly good academic career 2.36 pm can substantially raise their game through CPD. However, Asked by Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall it is also undoubtedly true that some teachers are now dropping out of the system due to a more rigorous To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they approach. As I say, we are seeing a much higher have any plans to encourage the retention and quality of teachers coming into the system than ever development of experienced qualified teachers in before. maintained schools. Lord Storey (LD): My Lords, the Minister will be The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for aware that highly qualified teachers are often leaving Schools (Lord Nash) (Con): My Lords, through our schools through confidential compromise agreements, 548 teaching schools and teaching school alliances we costing the education service literally hundreds of are developing a truly school-led system providing a thousands—maybe millions—of pounds. Is this a good wide range of CPD opportunities for schools across use of scarce education resources? Does he also agree the country. This is substantially enhancing the career that when compromise agreements are decided by a opportunities for teachers. Some 74% of trainee teachers school they should be open to public scrutiny? now hold a 2:1 degree or better—the highest proportion ever. Teaching is the most popular career choice for Oxford graduates and Teach First is Britain’s biggest Lord Nash: It is a fact that many schools, rather graduate recruiter. Vacancy rates are declining and than go through an extensive competency procedure, 78% of new teachers are teaching after five years, which can be highly contested, decide to enter into which represents a considerably lower number of career compromise agreements in order to move teachers on changes than in many other jobs. earlier. These often contain secrecy clauses, but I know that this area is being considered more widely. Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (Lab): My Lords, while I thank the Minister for that—encouraging on Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab): My Lords, the surface—reply, will he confirm that many teachers since the Minister seems to agree that good qualifications, regularly work 60 hours a week and in school holidays including good degrees, are essential for good teaching, and find it very difficult to make time to develop their can he explain why the Government have made it legal own practice? Coming from a family that is richly for academies to employ unqualified people as teachers? endowed with teachers, I see these pressures close up. I Given this, can he assure the House that his department believe that he gave some figures from his department is monitoring the extent to which academies are doing showing that 74% of newly qualified teachers now so? How many unqualified people are now working as stay in the profession for five years. Recent figures teachers in academies and free schools? showed the rate as being closer to 50%, which, if true, would certainly be a terrible waste. Will the Government Lord Nash: I am, as always, delighted that we are ensure that boards of governors and head teachers having this discussion about qualified teachers because, take seriously the well-being of teachers, including the frankly, if that is all that divides the parties, we have need for them to be good parents to their own children, clearly nearly reached a consensus on our extensive and pay attention particularly to the need for mentoring teaching reforms. There are, in fact, fewer unqualified and professional development? teachers under this Government than under the previous Government, despite the substantial increase in academies,