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Article

23 May 2002

Author:
Patrick Wintour, Guardian [UK]

Campus volunteers urged to teach [UK]

Education ministers are backing US inspired plans to persuade thousands of graduates to spend two years as teachers in tough schools as a precursor to beginning a business career...The scheme envisages business executives visiting campuses to tell undergraduates in their penultimate year and expected to get good grades, especially in science, maths and languages, that they will be treated as better recruitment prospects if they commit themselves to teach in inner city schools.