The so-called chairs of mathematics and physics will be post-graduates and are to be paid £40,000 a year. The Department for Education wants them to be working in schools by the autumn.
Education minister Liz Truss said: “The new chairs will provide masterclasses, online lesson demonstrations. They will help link the classroom to business and universities and complement other great programmes like stimulating physics and maths hubs.
“Recruitment is already underway and the first chairs will be in classrooms from this autumn. In due course we want to see hundreds recruited.”
A particular focus of the chairs’ work will be to increase post-16 participation among female students. Currently, only two per cent of girls taking A levels do physics and only eight per cent do maths.
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