Teacher training

The latest news and analysis on how teachers are trained, including initial teacher training (ITT) – or initial teacher education (ITE) in Scotland – and the early career framework (ECF)

Friday

28th Mar 2025

Why we need a mandatory safeguarding qualification
The introduction of a standardised qualification for designated safeguarding leads would improve children’s safety and better professionalise the role, sector experts tell Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Safeguarding zorbing

Thursday

27th Mar 2025

How to revolutionise training for ECF mentors
There are serious issues with the training for mentors within the Early Career Framework, writes Haili Hughes – overhauling the process would help to retain both experienced and new teachers
How to revolutionise training for ECF mentors

Friday

21st Mar 2025

Why some schools will be hit harder by planned QTS change
With the government planning a requirement for all teachers to have qualified teacher status, research shows that staff without QTS are not distributed evenly across the sector
Lady with broken umbrella

Thursday

20th Mar 2025

Be ‘boy positive’ to tackle underachievement, schools told
More male teachers are needed to help address the gender attainment gap, says report
Boy positive culture

Wednesday

19th Mar 2025

Why the ECF isn’t keeping teachers in the job
While the Early Career Framework was created with the best intentions, there are several key reasons why it is not improving the retention of new teachers, argues Sam Gibbs
Come back

Friday

14th Mar 2025

Call for £150m arts fund to train primary teachers
Creativity and the expressive arts should be put at the heart of the primary school curriculum, says report
Primary dance class

Thursday

13th Mar 2025

Without money, Labour’s aim for 6,500 more teachers looks tough
The Department for Education will have to try other routes to entice new teachers, but the chance of success is unclear, explains Jack Worth
Well in the middle of the desert

Tuesday

11th Mar 2025

How our trust is making QTS achievable for all
The requirement in the government’s schools bill for all teachers to have qualified teacher status gives us a chance to rethink teacher development, says BDAT’s Katie Waring
signposts with pathways

Friday

7th Mar 2025

Why SEMH support is schools’ biggest challenge
Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs have been found to fare the worst in terms of getting SEND support. Why is this, and what can schools do with constrained resources?
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Tuesday

4th Mar 2025

What if... ITT had limitless resources
As part of our thought experiment series, Ben Jose looks at what would change and what would stay the same if ITT had access to limitless time, technology and resources
Person standing with open arms against a backdrop of the universe
Are ITT ‘shortcomings’ behind special school teacher shortages?
Findings come after special schools were shown to be suffering more ‘severe’ teacher shortages than other parts of the sector
Are ITT ‘shortcomings’ behind special school teacher shortages?

Wednesday

26th Feb 2025

How ‘efficiency’ derailed education
The education system has become too obsessed with efficiency and has lost its true purpose, argues Bernard Andrews
How ‘efficiency’ derailed education