08 Jun 2005
Plans to ease shortage of science teachers.
The government is to announce a new package of incentives on Thursday aimed at easing the shortage of science teachers in England's schools, the junior education minister Andrew Adonis revealed today to the Guardian. He said subjects like maths and science would be targeted after the success of the government's "golden hello" scheme to attract potential teachers. He said: "At the end of the day, what really matters in schools is having excellent science teaching. Books and all that are very important but without the teachers you can't make anything of them."
His comments came as the author Bill Bryson backed a scheme to send a copy of his best-selling book on science to every secondary school in Britain in a bid to help boost science education in schools.
Lord Adonis was speaking at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London, where the scheme to send A Short History Of Nearly Everything to 6,000 secondary schools was launched today.
Last year the Teacher Training Agency admitted that both science and maths teaching were "challenging" to recruit for despite the possibility of a £7,000 bursary to trainees in these subjects and a taxable £5,000 "golden hello" available to new teachers.
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