Claim: Most secondary schools use teachers not trained in their subject
Fact-check: Do most secondary schools use non-specialist teachers? - Full Fact
Verdict: two-thirds of people responding to a survey by a school and college leaders' union said recruitment problems have led them to have subjects taught by non-specialists. we don't know how representative that figure is of the experience of schools nationally. official figures show that about one in six lessons in the key academic subjects in english secondary schools were being taught by teachers without a relevant post a level qualification in 2014. around 24% of maths teachers and 21% of english teachers didn't have a relevant post a level qualification in that year.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2016-03-01T00:00:00