The recession has eased the shortage of science teachers in the classroom.
A flood of unemployed graduates into teaching has helped reduce mathematics
vacancies in secondary schools by a half to 76. Science vacancies dropped
by two thirds to 88. Music, languages and religious education all now suffer
more acute shortages than science.
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