Forty-three percent are primary school teachers, and the overwhelming majority (4.5 million) are women.
Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray said Renfrewshire Council is planning to replace primary school teachers with volunteers.
In Scotland only 8% of primary school teachers are male, while about 15% are male in Northern Ireland.
According to the government the recruitment issue is confined to secondary school teachers and not primary school teachers.
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In some countries they account for 90 % of primary school teachers (1).
"There is nothing particularly new in the idea of primary school teachers requiring more maths subject knowledge, " said general secretary Christine Blower.
Department for Education and Skills figures show that in the UK in 2001 there were 27, 400 male and 141, 000 female primary school teachers.
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Scottish primary school teachers should have the equivalent of a science Higher before they enter the profession, according to a group of experts.
Funds will also be used to provide all 175, 000 primary school teachers with teachers' guides, syllabi and syllabi guides, the defence firm said.
Figures from the TDA show a steady increase in the numbers of men beginning training to become primary school teachers in recent years.
Only 12% of primary school teachers are male, compared with 38% of secondary school teachers - with the proportions virtually unchanged since last year.
They began by experimenting with 400 primary school teachers who volunteered.
According to the Department for Education and Skills, 15.7% of primary school teachers in England are male - 26, 200 teachers, compared with 141, 000 female primary teachers.
Teachers who understand computing is another: only 45% of primary school teachers and 36% in secondary schools have had information technology training in the past two years.
Lecturers from the School of Education in the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education were trained during this project to provide in-service teacher training for primary school teachers.
He said primary school teachers had always tended to work this way more than their secondary counterparts, because they saw children the whole time, not just for their particular subject.
Also expect more support for primary school teachers preparing their children for tests - could, for example, future exams be held within primary schools rather than at the grammar schools?
The study points out that primary school teachers in England have to deal with larger classes, and that the workload in Scotland has dropped by 10% in the decade between 2000 and 2010.
But these calls have been resisted by unions representing primary school teachers, as well as by council directors of education, who have said most schools are ready to introduce the curriculum on time.
Developed by UNEP with the education expertise of UNESCO, this kit gives primary school teachers a simple yet comprehensive teaching tool to facilitate the inclusion of human and environmental issues linked to ozone reduction within the teaching curricula.
These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.
The changes aren't wholly revolutionary in primary school where teachers are used to teaching project style.
Peak District delegate Alison Sloan said some of the worst offenders were primary school head teachers who themselves had never taught the literacy and numeracy strategies.
Nay, plenty of public-sector workers such as primary-school teachers, nurses, policemen or train drivers can retire on full pension at the age of 55, or in some cases even 50.
By 2pm, they had visited the neighbouring primary school, interviewed two teachers and two pupils about their views, and written up their report.
It is especially aimed at teachers of the final grades of Primary Education as well as high school teachers and health sector professionals working with young adults and teenagers, mainly in basic health care.
The PAEMST award recognizes outstanding primary-school math and science teachers and is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The government has set ambitious targets with few resources to ensure that the country's more than 10m primary- and secondary-school teachers acquire the skills and determination to change the habits of a lifetime.
At mid-day it was high school students, primary and secondary teachers.
Last term, teachers at a primary school in Bristol took over the funding of breakfasts for 130 pupils, when a charity was unable to continue the financial support.
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