And while the report does stress the importance of teacher education, I think a stronger point is made for higher initial salaries for teachers entering the field.

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In a joint response, the National Association of Head Teachers and the Secondary Heads Association said they supported ways of identifying potential for higher education in students whose backgrounds made them unlikely to do well at A-level.

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Mr. Christie also used his address Monday to hail the bipartisan passage of tenure changes for public teachers and a restructuring of state higher education institutions.

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He is a Consulting Editor for Research in Higher Education with recent publications appearing in the Journal of Higher Education, Teachers College Record, and Research in Higher Education.

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Lecturers from the School of Education in the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education were trained during this project to provide in-service teacher training for primary school teachers.

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When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).

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