My colleague Aletha Adu has the story here.Rishi Sunak’s plan to teach maths up to 18 dismissed by opposition parties as ‘empty pledge’ and ‘admission of failure’Good morning. Parliament is not sitting this week but over the next 36 hours the prime minister, and the person most likely to be prime minister after the next election, will both be making major speeches about their vision for Britain in 2023. She said:This is an admission of failure from the prime minister on behalf of a Conservative government that has neglected our children’s education so badly. You don’t need a maths A-Level to know it takes more teachers to teach maths to age 18 than to 16. She said:The prime minister needs to show his working: he cannot deliver this reheated, empty pledge without more maths teachers, yet the government has missed their target for new maths teachers year after year, with existing teachers leaving in their droves.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2023 21:41 UTC