The report, Routes into teaching for teaching assistants, by researchers at Oxford Brookes University for the Department of Education and Skills (DfES), has found that although around 40 per cent of teaching assistants would like to become teachers, fewer than one in 12 apply for teacher training because they see the pressures teachers are under, especially with paperwork.
Among the report's aims were to identify obstacles which currently prevent teaching assistants from training to teach; to obtain a profile of teaching assistants and their work and aspirations in the primary, secondary and special education fields; and to recommend measures designed to remove obstacles confronting teaching assistants wishing to train as teachers.
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