he's also the chair of the education select committee. the institute for fiscal studies. he says further education has been hit the hardest in government budgets. jo, jo, are you seeing jo, are you seeing an jo, are you seeing an impact on your children's primary school already? yes, we founded this new national pa rent yes, we founded this new national parent campaign because parents are very unhappy that the government isn't keeping to the promises they made to parents. what kind of impacts are you seeing? well, in the areas where i am, we're seeing class sizes increase. from what to what? well, the class sizes are at the highest level in a decade. it is not supposed to be over 30 in state schools? and it is in many of our schools? and it is in many of our schools and as parents that's unacceptable. i don't think any pa rent unacceptable. i don't think any pa re nt wa nts unacceptable. i don't think any parent wants to see class sizes increasing, parents want to see class sizes deceasing. the report confirms what a lot of people are sayi

the education select committee has called on the government to find ways of making teaching more attractive leaving the profession. frankie mccamley reports. maths class for these children, with mr walton. but professionals like him are increasingly hard to come by. that's according to a group of mps who says school teacher shortages in england are getting worse. i'm into my fourth year of teaching now. i know some people have dropped out now. i think that's mainly due to workload and pressure, and things like that. the education select committee is calling for a long—term plan to recruit more teachers and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them, warning many are leaving. reasons include a lack of job satisfaction, curriculum changes, and workload. research has found teachers in england worked nearly 20% more than they do in other similar countries. an average of nearly 50 hours of week. 20 of those are spent here in the classroom teaching. mps say secondary schools are hardest hit in subjects like physics, maths and computing. what we've got to get across is just how important tea

the education select committee has called on the government to find ways of making teaching more attractive and to stop people leaving the profession. let's talk now to malcolm trobe, interim general secretary of the association of school and college leaders, he joins us from leicester. what can be done to address this really worrying, alarming shortage of teachers in maths and science, some of the subjects that we really need children to be good at if we are to prosper long term as an economy. yes, we are looking very much for the education department to put out a strategy which will encourage people to enter teaching and also to retain teachers. one of the difficulties at the moment is we are not actually recruiting enough, we do not have enough places in initial teacher training we believe to get the number of teachers we need coming into the profession. so we need to look at the modelling to ensure that we are actually providing sufficient places. we also then need to make the roads into teaching and the ways of applying to come into teaching straightforward. why then the shortage in pa

the education select committee has called on the government to find ways of making teaching more attractiveop people leaving the profession. with me now is charles tracy, who's the head of education at the institute of physics. he gave evidence to the committee for their report. what do you think needs to be done to get these kind of teachers into the profession and keep them there. much of it is covered in the report which is an excellent report. the most important thing is it values teachers and that is one way to keep them in the profession, showed that the system and headteachers value them. and keeping them in teaching, part of thatis keeping them in teaching, part of that is to make them feel like professionals, provide them with opportunities for professional development and give them an entitlement to professional development. help them get better at theirjobs. why do we have this shortage in particular in maths and science, do you think? the shortage of physics goes back to recruitment in the early 1990s which was below what it ought to be. at that time there was the development of

the education select committee has called on the government to find ways of making teaching more attractiverofessionals like him are increasingly hard to come by. that's according to a group of mps who says school teacher shortages in england are getting worse. i'm into my fourth year of teaching now. i know some people have dropped out now. i think that's mainly due to workload and pressure, and things like that. the education select committee is calling for a long—term plan to recruit more teachers and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them, warning many are leaving. reasons include a lack of job satisfaction, curriculum changes, and workload. research has found teachers in england worked nearly 20% more than they do in other similar countries. an average of nearly 50 hours of week. 20 of those are spent here in the classroom teaching. mps say secondary schools are hardest hit in subjects like physics, maths and computing. what we've got to get across is just how important teachers are to our society and our economy. they need to feel valued and trusted. the department for educa

the education select committee has called on the government to find ways of making teaching more attractiveingly hard to come by. that's according to a group of mps who says school teacher shortages in england are getting worse. i'm into my fourth year of teaching now. i know some people have dropped out now. i think that's mainly due to workload and pressure, and things like that. the education select committee is calling for a long—term plan to recruit more teachers and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them, warning many are leaving. reasons include a lack of job satisfaction, curriculum changes, and workload. research has found teachers in england worked nearly 20% more than they do in other similar countries. an average of nearly 50 hours of week. 20 of those are spent here in the classroom teaching. mps say secondary schools are hardest hit in subjects like physics, maths and computing. what we've got to get across is just how important teachers are to our society and our economy. they need to feel valued and trusted. the department for education says it's investing in teach

the education select committee is calling for a long—term plan to recruit more teachers and a biggerers in england with nearly 20% more than they do in other similar countries, an average of nearly 50 hours a week. 20 of those are spent here in the classroom teaching. mps say secondary schools are hardest hit in subjects like physics, maths and computing. what we've got to get across isjust how important teachers are to our society and our economy. they need to feel valued, they need to feel trusted. the department for education says it's investing in teacher recruitment and development to make sure the best in the profession stay put. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first the headlines on bbc newsroom live. hospital services in nearly two—thirds of england could be cut or scaled back, bbc analysis of local plans shows. a heterosexual couple have lost their appeal for the right to enter into a civil partnership. london couple rebecca steinfeld and charles keidan claim it's unfair that only same—sex couples are given an alternative to marriage. and a light air

the education select committee is calling for a long—term plan to recruit more teachers and a biggerwarning many are leaving. reasons include a lack of job satisfaction, curriculum changes and workload. research has found teachers in england work nearly 20% more than they do in other similar countries, an average of nearly 50 hours a week. 20 of those are spent here in the classroom teaching. mps say secondary schools are hardest hit in subjects like physics, maths, and computing. what we've got to get across is just how important teachers are to our society and to our economy. they need to feel valued, they need to feel trusted. the department for education says it is investing in teacher recruitment and development to make sure the best in the profession stay put. profits at britain's biggest bank, hsbc, fell by more than 60% last year. the bank has blamed slowing growth in the uk, which it has linked to uncertainty over brexit. it's also repeated a warning that it could move a thousand staff from london to paris. five people have been killed after light plane crashed into a shoppi

about this all, republican senator johnny isaac son, serves on the health education labor and pensions committee. also chair of the selectmittee on ethics. senator, always good to have you with us. thank you so much. >> thank you, jake. good to be with you. >> i want to start with actually some breaking news on a press call just now. your colleague, senator blumenthal, democrat of connecticut who met today with supreme court nominee neil gorsuch said that gorsuch used the words demoralizing and disheartening to describe president trump's attacks on individual judges in the 9th circuit and out west. this is according to senator blumenthal. but this is the president's supreme court nominee. what do you make of it? >> well, i have to go by what you're saying is a quote from somebody else. i'm surprised that he would repeat that if that was, in fact, what was said. but i can't deny because i wasn't there to hear it. >> do you have any thoughts on whether it's appropriate for the president to talk about judges the way he has been? >> donald trump has taken it on himself to talk about anything he wants to within 140 characters