The Conservative Party plans to encourage top-class graduates into the education sector if they are elected to government this summer. In a speech outlining a draft education manifesto for his party, the leader of the opposition said that the Tories plan to emulate other nations' systems of offering financial incentives to tempt the best graduates into teaching. Graduates with second class honours or higher could see their chances of being recruited to teaching increase after Mr Cameron argued that those with third class degrees should no longer be considered for the profession. Paying off student loans for people keen on moving into education was one potential method of luring the brightest graduates, suggested Mr Cameron. He said: "We're going to begin at source - at recruitment - and make sure we get the best people into the profession. "At the moment, not enough of our brightest people consider going into teaching, especially those in the subjects we need." In an interview today Dylan Wiliam, professor of educational assessment and deputy director of the Institute of Education, University of London, said that he was pleased to see the Conservatives committing to the importance of teacher quality.
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