Big jump in TA numbers.

The number of teaching assistants in English primary schools has jumped by 10,000 in the past year.
There were 115,000 full-time equivalent TAs in primary and nursery schools in England in January this year compared to 105,000 last year - the biggest yearly increase for five years.
And because many TAs are not full time, the actual number of people in the job is much higher.
Provisional government figures published today also show a small increase in the number of classroom teachers in primary schools.
Since 2000, the number of children to each teacher in primary schools has fallen from an average of 23.4 to 21.6, and the number of children per adult from 16.8 to 12. In nursery schools too, pupil-teacher and pupil-adult ratios have dropped.
School workforce in England, January 2008 (Provisional)