And he also called on the Training and Development Agency for schools to review how initial teacher training equips new teachers to deal with challenging behaviour.

BBC: Behaviour experts to help schools

Mr Coles said that Paddington Academy in London and William Hulme Grammar School in Manchester, also run by United Learning, would share leadership of the initiative to provide initial teacher training for 50 students from September this year and some 200 trainee teachers the following year.

BBC: Private schools to train state school teachers