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NQT Special: Protecting your rights as an NQT

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New teachers have a wide range of entitlements to help them as they find their feet in this challenging profession. Chris Keates asks if you are receiving all the rights that you are entitled to as an NQT.

Teaching is one of the best, most satisfying and worthwhile of the professions. It is also highly demanding and challenging. 

There has been much recent political debate on qualified teacher status (QTS) following the coalition government’s decision to remove the requirement for all teachers to hold QTS in schools in England.

The NASUWT is quite clear that children and young people are entitled to be taught by qualified teachers and that when parents send their children to school they have a right to know they are being taught by qualified teachers. The removal of the requirement on schools to recruit qualified teachers undermines the status of the profession and compromises the quality of educational provision.

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