"In 2012 Michael Gove gave academies and free schools choice to hire unqualified staff; there are now thousands more of them.
Unions reacted angrily on Thursday after official figures showed a sharp rise in the number of unqualified teachers employed by state-funded schools in England.
The growth follows education secretary Michael Gove's 2012 decision to give academies and free schools the freedom to hire staff without standard qualifications such as a postgraduate certificate in education.
The Department for Education figures reveal that, after years of decline in the number of unqualified teachers in classrooms, there was a sharp jump from 14,800 in 2012 to 17,100 in November last year, when the national survey was carried out.
The number of frontline staff without qualified teaching status (QTS) employed by academies and free schools rose by 2,600 to nearly 8,000 – meaning nearly 6% of the 141,000 full-time teaching staff at both types of school lack teaching accreditation. In free schools, teachers without QTS represent 13% of 1,500 full-time teachers.
In contrast, teachers without QTS make up 3.8% of teachers in state-funded schools overall.Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, said he would scrap the policy and insist all teachers had qualifications or were training towards them.
"The evidence from the best performing school systems around the world shows us that the quality of teaching makes the biggest difference to raising school standards," Hunt said. "Many parents will be shocked to learn that David Cameron is damaging school standards by making entry requirements into teaching in this country amongst the lowest in world."
The DfE's annual school workforce survey also showed a continued rise in the use of teaching assistants in state schools, with primaries and nurseries employing three teaching assistants for every four full-time teachers.
Since 2000 the number of teaching assistants – who tend to be lower paid and have fewerqualifications – has risen from 79,000 to 243,000."
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