TEACHERS have criticised the government for failing to recruit enough trainee secondary-school teachers for the seventh year in a row.

Only 85 per cent of the overall target number were signed up this year, according to official Department for Education figures.

The number is disproportionately worse for core subjects, with only 64 per cent of the target being met for trainee maths teachers, 43 per cent for physics and 62 per cent for modern foreign languages.