The number of unlicenced teachers in the Netherlands is on the rise, Dutch daily Trouw reported on Thursday. Nearly 80 percent of all Dutch schools employed more unqualified instructors in 2008 than they did in 2007.
In 2008 over 18 percent of all classes were taught by someone who had not obtained the required degree. In some schools nearly a third of all classes were taught by an unqualified instructor.
Most school boards are not worried about the development. They believe that competence is more important than a licence and argue that an introductory physics course taught by a chemistry teacher is not necessarily substandard.
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