He said Labour would work with Teach First, which places top graduates as teachers in challenging areas, to double its graduate trainees to 2, 000.

BBC: Clacton

The committee chair, Mervyn Storey of the DUP, said schools had been coming to him saying they would be making two or three teachers redundant this year and this could be increasing to double figures in the future.

BBC: Education Committee

Teachers sent the prince's 2002 exam paper to be double-checked anonymously by the exam board, but no irregularities were discovered.

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It was a radical recasting of the teaching profession to embed teaching assistants alongside teachers and give them a defined role - now more than 130, 000 of them, double the number in 1997.

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