Michael Gove is removing the requirement for anyone wishing to teach in an academy school to have acquired a recognised teaching qualification. Do you agree with this policy, and will its implementation eventually make my job as a teacher educator on a four-year BEd degree programme an irrelevance?
Kieran McGeown, Belfast
If I were the education secretary, I would extend the freedom he has given to academies to all schools. This is not to say that I think successful teachers do not have to master their trade.
They do; but the skills of, for example, keeping discipline, explaining things clearly and asking appropriate questions are best learnt working with good teachers in real classrooms. Moreover, too many teacher-training institutions are committed to the ideological views