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Carol Vorderman not good enough to be a Tory teacher

Conservative plans announced earlier today, that only candidates with top degrees should be given state funding to become teachers, have been ridiculed after it emerged that Carol Vorderman would have been trapped by the policy.

The Evening Standard’s Paul Waugh has more:

“Unfortunately, a quick bit of research shows that Carol Vorderman – Mr Cameron’s prized Maths Taskforce chief* – didn’t do all that well when she studied engineering at Cambridge. She got a third class degree.”

Adding in an update that: “Turns out that Carol is in good company. Richard Whiteley also got a Third from Cambridge. Tony Blair, of course, got a third from Oxford (I think). Didn’t hold either of them back, it appears. But none of them good enough for Michael Gove.”

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