Clegg calls unqualified teachers to account

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has weighed into the debate over free schools. Does he have a point, or is it all a cynical publicity stunt?

"I have a great deal of sympathy with Nick Clegg," says Melissa Kite in The Guardian. The deputy prime minister has criticised aspects of education secretary Michael Gove's flagship free-schools policy.

He argues those schools should have to follow the national curriculum and employ only formally qualified teachers (so far they have significant autonomy over what they teach and whom they hire).

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