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Which teachers are teaching you the right way?

On average, every teacher in England teaches an average of one lesson per day, according to new figures.

The National Audit Office (NAO) found the average number of lessons a teacher teaches per day in England has fallen from 3.1 in 2014 to 2.6 in 2020.

The number of hours taught per day has risen from 3 hours in 2014, to 4.2 hours in 2020, while the percentage of lessons taught by men has increased from 41% to 48%.

The NAO also found the proportion of pupils taking GCSEs has fallen by 14 percentage points, from 62% in 2014-2020 to 51%.

In other words, pupils who took GCSE exams in the past three years were about two thirds more likely to take a GCSE than their peers in 2020 compared to 2014.

The figures also showed the number of pupils who received a teaching qualification (TES) qualification (which was one of the three required qualifications for most courses) has fallen dramatically, from 3,200 in 2014 and now just 1,500 in 2020-21.

In contrast, the number who had never taken a TES qualification had grown from 4,400 in 2014 or 4,900 in 2020 to 7,000 in 2020 and now 10,000.

It also revealed that the number receiving a TEC (Technical Education Certificate) qualification had increased from 2,500 to 5,600 over the past decade.

A total of 1,600 of the teachers in England have been replaced since the beginning of 2020, but this is down from a peak of more than 4,000 teachers in the early 2000s.

Overall, teaching standards across the UK have improved by 2% in the last three years, according the NAO, with an average increase of 0.4% for all teachers.

However, the report found that this was due in part to the closure of some schools, with schools in the south-west of England losing the opportunity to recruit more teachers.

In the past year, there has also been a drop in the proportion who are teaching in English as a second language (ESL), the NAOB found.

This is down by about 2% on the previous year.

It has been suggested that the drop is partly due to the Government’s decision to ban academies from holding TES qualifications.

A number of independent bodies, including the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, also criticised the Government for the lack of action it was taking to address the issue of under-representation in the teaching workforce.

The NAOB also said that despite the Government making significant progress in the number and proportion of teachers in their teaching force, it was also the case that the teaching force is still under-represented. “

This is a critical area of the education system, and our research has found that the Government needs to act on this issue urgently, by taking action to improve teacher training and recruitment in the UK, to encourage more women to be teachers, and to ensure that teachers are treated fairly and appropriately.”

In 2020-20, there were just over 8,000 female teachers in total, but that number is expected to grow by 10,500 over the next two years.

The NAOP said that the current number of female teachers was also “significantly lower than that achieved in 2010-11, when the total number of male teachers was just over 13,000”.

As well as reducing the number in the teacher force, the NAOs research also highlighted the continued under-investment in the training of teachers, which has seen the number teachers who have been trained in English decline.

In 2014-20 there were 5,300 teachers with teaching qualifications, and the NAOD said that by 2020-22 this number was expected to drop to 3,100, meaning the number with teaching degrees would drop from 3 million to 2 million.

In a recent report, the government said it was determined to increase the number teaching in England and was investing £50m a year in training and supporting the profession.

It said it would invest more than £2bn in the next four years, with more to come.

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