Schools 'must remove poor teachers'

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Sir Cyril Taylor, chairman of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, insisted that despite "fantastic" progress over recent years there were still about 17,000 "poor" teachers in England and Wales.

Their inability to control classes was unacceptable and headteachers had to be strong about ejecting them, he insisted.

"We've got 400,00 of our children attending low attaining schools," Sir Cyril told BBC Breakfast.

"Seventy five thousand leave schools at 16 with hardly any qualifications at all. Five million adults are functionally illiterate. That's a serious problem."

He added: "The head teacher that is good can take the necessary action; you get the wrong people off the bus and get the right people on the bus in the right seats.

"That means if you have weak heads of department you ask them to move on and you go out and recruit fantastic teachers."