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Fast-track teacher training offered to ex-City workers

Six-month training undermines profession, say unions

High-fliers who lose their jobs in the recession will be able to retrain as teachers in just six months - to the fury of teacher unions who said the profession could not be "picked up at the drop of a hat".

And those who are particularly gifted could become headteachers within four years, under a controversial new fast-track route into the classroom announced today.

Christine Blower, acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "Training someone to be a teacher in six months is an ill thought out scheme that consigns Gordon Brown's vision of a world class education system to the scrap heap."

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