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On Wednesday 19^th of January, Mr Barry Sheerman continued to support improving higher education in a debate on Further Education Lecturers.

He argued the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee's inquiries found a divide between who can teach in Further Education versus other schools.

Rather, Barry supports efforts to train early years teachers, school teachers and further education teachers through generic standards.

"It was one of our later inquiries and it was very much an eye-opener for all members of the Committee... It seems a crazy divide."

He added thousands of 14-year-old students are being taught by highly qualified staff in the FE sector. Studio schools, one of the first of which will in Huddersfield, will also be taking young people working in a work environment from the age of 14.

He hopes the government will consider measures to improve teacher training. He adds the report has cross-party support and gives people in the Department the opportunity to consider how the future of the teaching profession can progress.

"I care passionately about the matter. If we are to have a system with increasingly diverse post-14 routes - apprenticeships, people staying on in FE, people doing diplomas and more conventional vocational routes and being to switch across from those - we need a profession that can teach across the piece post-14."