pupil teacher

A Scottish government spokesman said: "We are committed to ensuring schools have the right number of teachers with the right skills. "That is why we acted to safeguard teacher posts for the next year by committing a £51m package of funding for Scotland's local authorities to maintain teacher numbers and pupil teacher ratios at 2014 levels in 2015-16.

The analysis paper said: "We can find no correlation between pupil/teacher ratios and S4 and S5 attainment, either at the individual local authority level or at Scottish level. "This is in line with the vast majority of the international literature which has found no systematic relationship between pupil/teacher ratio and pupil attainment.

Former Education Minister Lord Adonis said: "There is no easy recipe for a 'good efficient' system. But a highly professional teaching force, which is well but not excessively paid, and with pupil/teacher ratios not excessively small, is a good starting point."

Pū′pilary, Pū′pillary, pertaining to a pupil or ward.—Pupil teacher, one who is both a pupil and a teacher.

If Miss Foldal had been trained as a pupil teacher, the night school in Driver's Lane might not be necessary, after all.