He recalls having had a place in teacher training college, but trying out accountancy instead.
Deputy chairperson of the employment and learning committee, the DUP's Tom Buchanan, said the board of the teacher training college should come up with a "Plan B".
The weaknesses found in pre-service training are exacerbated by problems that most people entering teacher training college bring with them from their own primary and secondary education.
One secondary school, Jordanhill in Glasgow, was attached to a former teacher training college but since that was merged with another institution the school has been funded directly.
Michael Philip Jagger was the son of Joe Jagger, a physical education instructor at a teacher training college, and Eva, a hairdresser who had grown up in Australia.
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In a teacher training college in remote Syktyvkar, the unannounced arrival of a British journalist in an English class provokes a lively and well-informed discussion of Rudyard Kipling's novels.
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The SDLP's Pat Ramsey was concerned that the minister might be deploying "social engineering" to achieve his aims regarding both Stranmillis and St Mary's University College, the Belfast-based Catholic teacher training college.
Speaking at a meeting of the employment and learning committee, Jim Allister of the Traditional Unionist Voice suggested that Stephen Farry had misrepresented the level of support by staff at the teacher training college for the merger.
Cook Islands young people care and are very much aware about their educational environment, be it available resources, asbestos at Nikao Maori School, flooding at Avarua School, or well trained teachers and the effect the possible closure of the Teacher Training College will have on their future.
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.
Mr Farry turned to the wider picture of the teacher training system, and Stranmillis's counterpart in the Catholic sector, St Mary's University College.
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