Unqualified teachers up five-fold

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Two-thirds of these teachers were hired from overseas amid fears that schools were forced to look abroad to recruit staff, according to Government figures.

The details, which ministers released to the Conservatives, showed there were 16,710 staff teaching in England's state schools without qualified teacher status in 2007. This was up from 2,940 in 1997.

In that year, there were 2,480 overseas trained teachers in English state schools without qualified teacher status.

But 10 years later the figure had risen to 10,970.

Shadow Children's Secretary Michael Gove said schools have been forced to recruit teachers from overseas as growing numbers of British staff quit the profession.

Mr Gove said: "The Government's advice is that everyone should have the official qualification before teaching as a qualified teacher in a state school.

"It is very surprising that the number without qualified teacher status has risen five-fold since 1997.

"The huge increase in the number of teachers from abroad is partly due to the fact that so many British teachers are leaving the profession.

"Increasing problems in many schools with discipline and bureaucracy simply put many people off."