Of those completing post-graduate teacher training courses last year, 56% had achieved an upper-second-class degree or better as an undergraduate - up from 55% in 2004.

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Employers are much less likely to use an upper second class degree - a 2:1 - as a "gold standard" for deciding which students to recruit.

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