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Masters-qualified teachers are no guarantee of a successful schools system

DONALD Macdonald states that the EIS is correct in being concerned that "teachers gaining Masters qualifications should be financially rewarded" (Letters, November 8).

I had wrongly assumed that the world of assuring quality in Scottish education had collectively moved on from this input model and the focus in our schools should be on performance output – that is, pupil success and ways to obtain it.

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