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I agree with roulade. I would appreciate if you post more of your experiences, these are valuable.
This is the reason GCSE Maths teaching and learning is not of good quality. 50% teachers in English schools who are teaching secondary GCSE Maths do not have a Maths degree to do their teacher training. You are only required to have A level Maths to do teacher training and on top of that Govt. is paying around £9000 if you are willing to do training as a Maths teacher. In addition, if you stay in teaching for next 2 years after training then can get Golden Hello worth of around £5000.
As in England, on the one hand many students are not keen to learn Maths and on the other hand no one wants to teach Maths. So GCE O level does not exit anymore, it is the story of past. They started GCSE Maths foundation and higher level with a narrow curriculum. Then some schools are doing leaner Maths and some Modular. It has been made too easy so student can get A grade and would be willing to learn.
Because of that poor quality Govt. is getting highly talented Masters Degree holder teachers from Pakistan and India to teach in Secondary Schools. I believe Pakistan’s Matric level education of Maths and Science subjects is of better standard than the present GCSE’s. I can not comment on old O levels as they no longer exist in State English secondary schools here, however top Private schools in Lahore still have them.
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