More than a third of physics teachers (around 2, 000 teachers), half of those teachingSpanish (around 3, 400), over half of information and communications technology (ICT) teachers (around 9, 200) and more than two in five religious education teachers (around 6, 500) do not hold a relevant qualification higher than an A-level.
Her father switched from teaching middle-school Spanish to running a fish store in the Portland suburb of Clackamas, where her mother had a business producing couture dresses.
But he also pointed out that some schools in deprived areas were already teaching five year olds Spanish - and that should be possible to replicate nationwide.
Emily Nickerson served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in a high school just outside of Madrid after graduating with a double major in English and Spanish.