Next year, there will be fewer trainee teachers in Scotland because it has been announced that 1,500 teacher training places are to be cut next year.

This move has been agreed as a way of dealing with unemployment among teachers and to make time to create jobs for those already qualified.

Trainee primary school teachers are predicted to be the most affected with numbers dropping from 2,555 to 1,100.

These cuts have followed on from the news reported by the Times Educational Supplement which reported that only one in seven new teachers had managed to secure permanent posts.