Education Department – ‘Only for Elite’ Fear Over Tory Teaching Deal
Only students at a handful of red-brick universities would benefit from a Conservative plan to repay the loans of maths and science graduates if they opted to become teachers, it emerged today.
The Tories are offering to pay off the debts of maths and science graduates who turn to teaching, but will limit it to those who get first or 2.1 degrees from “good” universities. The qualifying institutions would be defined by the party if it came into office as part of an attempt to make entry into the profession more “elite”. One estimate today had the number of universities limited to the “low dozens”.
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