From recent reports in the Times yesterday by Sir Peter Williams one would assume that one attribute would be a good maths qualification.
Investigations have uncovered that the highest qualification in the subject of maths held by most primary teachers is a poor grade C in GSCE.
From the 10,000 trainee primary teachers recruited on the PGCE (post graduate certificate in education) courses, only 227 or 2.3 per cent have previously studied maths,science,technology or engineering at degree level.
There are plans to roll out week long summer schools in which teachers will get paid to learn maths, under new proposals to improve teaching in the UK's 17,000 primary schools.
Remember these are primary school teachers, teaching primary school children basic maths.