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Nurseries lack teachers
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
4 October 2007
Half of Scotland's local authority nurseries have no qualified teachers on their workforce, government figures revealed last week.
Statistics released by Scottish National Party show that in January 2007 only 54.6 per cent of settings had a teacher registered with the General Teaching Council, compared with 56.3 per cent in 2006. But the figures also show that the number of qualified pre-school teachers has increased from 2,070 to 2,110. In some areas, such as West Dunbartonshire and Moray, less than 20 per cent of local authority settings have a qualified teacher on their staff, while 93 per cent do in Midlothian region. Ronnie Smith, general...
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