:00:30. > :00:34.Thank you, what engagement has she planned for the rest of the day?
:00:35. > :00:38.Engagement city for the government didn't programme for Scotland. I
:00:39. > :00:49.will take part in the ITV leaders debate which Theresa May is ducking.
:00:50. > :00:52.We don't have enough teachers in Scotland and given the fact that all
:00:53. > :00:56.sides accept this, does the First Minister agree that when young
:00:57. > :01:02.people here do choose teaching as a career, we should do everything we
:01:03. > :01:07.can that they stay? As we've discussed before, Scotland in common
:01:08. > :01:21.with many other countries faces a challenge in teacher recruitment. We
:01:22. > :01:25.are increasing the intake. We're looking at different routes into
:01:26. > :01:29.teaching. Ruth Davidson is going to ask about teach first I have said
:01:30. > :01:48.before I am open-minded to looking at
:01:49. > :01:52.ideas as to how we get young people into teaching but we have to make
:01:53. > :01:54.sure that these ideas work for Scottish education so we will
:01:55. > :01:57.continue to make sure we address the challenges we face. Let's have a
:01:58. > :02:00.little look at teach first. We land in the last five years that nearly
:02:01. > :02:09.four they were attracted by the teach first programme. That's 400
:02:10. > :02:14.enthusiastic young teachers who could be in the schools were down
:02:15. > :02:19.but can't because Nicola Sturgeon says so. We have heard in recent
:02:20. > :02:22.days about the huge quality issues surrounding teacher training here.
:02:23. > :02:25.Given that, can the First Minister give me a single good reason why she
:02:26. > :02:30.is stopping new schemes.