Mr Cunningham believes teaching the subject would make people aware of the financial products on offer.
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Teaching a subject at the same level to bright 13-year-olds alongside struggling 17-year-olds, for example, is not a recipe for classroom harmony.
And Adam McNichol - one of the few teaching this subject who has a computer science degree - told us the whole education system needed to change, so that the value of the subject was recognised.
Many of the scholarships you find will be very specific, only for students from a particular background, geographic area, or profession, like the Nadeen Burkeholder Williams Music Scholarship, which is for a K-12 teacher pursuing a graduate degree who either teaches music or uses music as a method of teaching another subject.
They did not, of course, succeed, but they did enough to revolutionise the teaching of the subject.
Rhys Williams from NUT Cymru said that while they believed the new subjects were a good idea, they were concerned whether teachers would be capable of teaching every single subject.
Monsignor Stenico told his interviewer that he did not regard himself as being in a state of sin because of his homosexual activities but was forced to keep them secret because of the church's teaching on the subject.
Janet Finch Saunders AM noted the decline in GCSE take up of STEM subjects and the fact that take up at A level has not increased in line with overall A level entries as she called on the government to introduce a programme encouraging highly talented people into STEM subject teaching.
His place in the curriculum is established, but he is hardly popular as a subject of teaching or scholarship.
Jamie Kelsey Fry, a board member of the Association for Citizenship Teaching, said the subject was all about creating an informed, enabled and politically engaged generation of young people.
Encouraging people to become active citizens in the so-called Big Society was one of the Conservatives' key themes, he said, and citizenship teaching was the ideal subject to aid this.
At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.
The Association for Citizenship Teaching says it understands the subject will be made non-statutory in the coming curriculum shake-up.
Brazil compounds the problem by training teachers in neither subject matter nor teaching skills (they learn about the philosophy of education instead).
Why would talented people want to subject themselves to a teaching job under the sort of conditions that Matt favors?
Teaching the Bible is of course a touchy subject.
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But the problem, according to those campaigning for change, begins at school with ICT - a subject seen by its detractors as teaching clerical skills rather than any real understanding of computing.
Serious problems have been identified in the quality of pre-service teacher training, in terms of both subject matter knowledge and skills in the field of teaching that are necessary to be effective in the classroom.
Recently named an Outstanding Presence in Culture by the city of Buenos Aires, Genovese has been teaching fileteado since 1998, has published several books on the subject and his work can be found across Buenos Aires and the world on signs and in exhibitions and galleries.
The mayor of Shanghai, China -- a city of over 20 million people -- told me that even in such a large city, they had no problem recruiting teachers in whatever subject, but particularly math and science, because teaching is revered and the pay scales are comparable to professions like doctors.
All these methods of assessment are subject to gaming and they all take time away from teaching and learning.
Andy Thornton, of the Citizenship Foundation, described it as "an understandable defence of their own subject based on ignorance of another's", adding that citizenship teaching had helped transform schools, inducting pupils "into the social order of the day, empowering them to play their part in its stability and prosperity".
That is why we are looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review to ensure that pupils are engaged and inspired by the subject.
He was then an academic at Harvard Business School for some 30 years and started teaching marketing there at a time when, legend has it, he had never previously read a book on the subject.
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