“Children in approximately 1000 secondary schools across the country are never taught physics by a physics specialist.
“This means too many students being taught physics by teachers who may not even have taken the subject at A-level. How can students be inspired by teachers who themselves have no solid grasp of the subject?
“We know that we need a scientifically literate workforce if the UK is to see its way through the most pressing challenges our society faces – from a slumping economy to the threat of climate change – and it is heartening that a senior politician has listened to organisations like ours and made a sensible proposal which could have a profound and lasting effect.”
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