Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 56002
Physics: Teachers
Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025
Question
Manuela Perteghella
Liberal Democrat — Stratford-on-Avon
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support the retraining of existing science teachers to teach physics in schools without specialist provision.
Answer
Catherine McKinnellHigh-quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child or young person’s outcome in school and college. This government has inherited a system with critical shortages of teachers, especially in physics. In 2023/24, w...
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