Written questions

Physics: Teachers

Commons · Question 56002 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 9 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Manuela Perteghella

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support the retraining of existing science teachers to teach physics in schools without specialist provision.

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 9 Jun 2025

High-quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child or young person’s outcome in school and college. This government has inherited a system with critical shortages of teachers, especially in physics. In 2023/24, w...