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Boris is to send volunteers into London state schools to promote Latin.

The Mayor has set up the Love Latin scheme alongside educational charity the Iris Project which will see graduates give one-off talks.
The aim is to reach more than 2,000 children in the first year and City Hall today said 60 volunteers have already been recruited. The project is part of Team London – the Mayor’s programme to recruit 60,000 volunteers by next spring.

Mr Johnson said: “I believe that the classics have a vital role to play in the development of young minds. There is still an undeserved cultural divide in the way that the classics are perceived.

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New teachers must show they can control pupils

Pupils to learn to stand when a teacher enters room
They will be sent home if they don’t have right equipment
Headmasters to sack teachers who can’t control classes. Trainee teachers will be instilled with a zero-tolerance approach to ill discipline in school.

They will be taught to bring back the traditions of pupils standing when a teacher enters the room and of keeping quiet in corridors.

A trainee unable to prove they can control a rowdy classroom will not qualify for a teaching post.

The radical shake-up by Education Secretary Michael Gove is designed to raise standards in state education.

New teachers will have to punish any pupil who steps outside strict codes of behaviour.

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