Ofsted has found shortcomings at five initial teacher training providers inspected under its new framework, reports published today reveal.

The new inspection reports come amid massive uncertainty in the sector over government plans to expect all teacher training providers to be reaccredited in order to continue recruiting from September 2022.

Until today, all initial teacher training providers in the country had been judged to be “good” or “outstanding” by the watchdog at their most recent inspection. 

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However, almost half of the 11 new reports published by Ofsted today identify some failings in the initial teacher training being provided.

These are the first inspections to be carried out under Ofsted’s new inspection framework.

Ofsted judges teacher training providers ‘inadequate’

Two have been rated as “inadequate”, another provider has had one element of its provision rated as “inadequate” and two more have been rated as “requires improvement”.

Ofsted began inspecting teacher training provision under a new framework this term.

Ofsted today has rated Cumbria Teacher Training and the Solent SCITT to be “inadequate”.  Both were rated as “good” in their previous inspection.

It also rated the University of Wolverhampton’s early years ITT to be ‘inadequate” but found its primary, secondary and further education phases to be “good”.

New College Durham and Middlesbrough College have been rated as “requires improvement” but have not been inspected before. 

Six other ITT inspection reports were published today in which providers were rated “good”.

The latest Ofsted inspection reports come after an organisation representing more than 200 teacher training providers across the country warned that the planned shake-up of the ITT training market could create “a catastrophic risk to the teacher supply chain”.

The National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers (NASBTT) says smaller providers will be disproportionately affected by the proposed changes, which it says would involve providers having to gain reaccreditation and the market being “centralised” in the hands of a smaller number of larger providers.

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