You can’t teach an old dog new tricks but you can create a new teacher out of an old-timer.
The recently-retired are firmly in the sights of Now Teach, a charity that aims to tackle the teacher recruitment crisis by persuading middle-aged professionals to switch careers.
Ministers want to lure early retirees back to work in light of a House of Lords report last year that stated the practice was the biggest contributor to economic inactivity in the UK.
A return from the golf course to the classroom is the latest strategy of Now Teach, which offers a recruitment and support programme for experienced professionals to retrain as teachers.
