The Conservatives pledged its latest education policy last month – vowing not to let teachers into the profession with degrees of less than a 2:2. Conservative leader David Cameron said the Tories would be “brazenly elitist” when it came to admissions to the profession, in a similar way to countries such as Finland and South Korea. While some have pointed out that less than four per cent of teachers currently working in the UK actually have a third class degree, The Times Educational Supplement claims that one in six maths and ICT teachers working today would fail to make it into the classroom under the reforms proposed by the Conservatives. With some subjects seriously undersubscribed, would Cameron’s policy actually make the situation in the UK worse. Or is it about time that standards were raised?