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Until last year, the figures, from the database of teacher records, showed a fall in the number of qualified teachers leaving the profession over the previous five years.
BBC: Numbers of teachers who quit 'up by a fifth in a year'
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While insisting she was not advocating a "soft and fluffy" style of teaching, she argued that research showed that a good teacher had to engage with "the powerfully charged emotional relationship between teacher and pupil".
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | What makes a good teacher?
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Professor Patricia Broadfoot, a former Professor of Education and now vice-chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire, argued persuasively that the evidence from international studies showed that "the highest quality teaching and learning comes when we have the greatest autonomy for the teacher and the learner".
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | What makes a good teacher?