Teaching: While you work

School support staff are adding theory to practice and becoming teachers thanks to some innovative schemes. Mary Evans reports Faced with a growing shortage of teachers, local councils across the country are being encouraged by the Government to develop innovative schemes to combat the schools' recruitment crisis. A range of programmes has been devised to attract people from other walks of life into education, with bonuses for graduates switching professions and grants for postgraduate training. However, authorities like the London borough...