Headlines, PublicNet: 26 May, 2011

Changes in the teachers’ performance management rules will give more power to headteachers to deal with underperformance.

There has been widespread concern across the profession that pupils are suffering from underperformance, which is not being tackled with sufficient vigour. In the last decade only 18 teachers have been banned from the classroom. The figure contrasts with the estimate, made by Chris Woodhead when he was the head of Ofsted, that there are 15,000 incompetent teachers in service.

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