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A top adviser to the British government has the quality of British schools and teachers. The adviser, Dominic Cummings, has closely with the UK Education Secretary Michael Gove for many years. Mr Gove has many of his adviser's ideas and has very unpopular with British teachers. Cummings has teachers very angry about a new report he on education in Britain. He education in Britain is "between awful and mediocre". He said most teachers do not a good job in the classroom and that "real talent is rare". He : "In England, few teachers well trained in the basics of extended writing or mathematical and scientific modelling and problem-solving."
Mr Cummings also other areas of Britain's schools. He said billions of dollars are "" on projects to help poorer students and on "pointless" university courses. He that many university courses in England students little and do not them get a job. He said university students to work much harder. Cummings also teachers by 70 per cent of a child's ability in the classroom is because of his or her genes, and not because of teachers. Senior officials at the Department for Education have said Mr Cummings should be fired. One said he is the reason for a lot of the Education Secretary's "madder ideas". Many teachers also Michael Gove to be .

 


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