Top students to be offered £20,000 in desperate bid to get them to train as teachers

Graduates with first class degrees will be handed £20,000 to train as teachers in a desperate bid to improve state education standards, Michael Gove will announce today.

Generous bursaries to teach shortage subjects such as science and maths will be paid to the brightest graduates.

The plans form a central plank of an overhaul of the teacher training system in England after school standards have slipped in relation to other developed nations.    Read More