Do teachers need training?
Rob and Cath talk about teachers and how one school is planning to only use people who were in the armed forces to work there.
This week's question:
According to Government figures, approximately how many school pupils are there in England? Is it:
a) 6.1 million
b) 7.1 million, or
c) 8.1 million
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
Listen
Soldier teacher
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Vocabulary
- armed forces
army, navy and air force of a country
- reforms
changes and improvement to a law, social system or institution
- qualified
someone who passed the examination in order to work in a particular profession
- certified
to be issued a certificate saying that a person completed training in order to work in a particular profession
- statistically
relating to information shown in numbers
- critics
here, people who disapprove of an idea or suggestion
- undigested
here, this means unchanged
- ridiculous
very foolish or absurd
- approaches
methods or system
- exemption
freedom from obeying a rule or a duty
