Rishi Sunak’s plans for all pupils to continue maths education until the age of 18 have been described as “baffling” by a teachers' union, which has warned that schools do not have the staff to deliver it.
Sunak laid out his intention for all students to keep up numeracy classes in a major speech this afternoon. Currently pupils in post-16 education are not required to study maths.
But the head of the National Education Union, which repesents more than 500,000 teachers in the UK, has said that no changes to the curriculum will make an impact until ministers address staff recruitment and retention issues.
According to data published last month, the government missed its target for teacher recruitment last year.
