Government Policy in England on the Financing of ITT: Value for Money or a Waste of Resources?
A recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO, 2016) has criticised the Department of Education’s organisation of Initial Teacher Training programmes in England as not providing value for money. This paper explores recent reports from government agencies, Parliament and the press on this issue....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES)
2017-05-01
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| Series: | BCES Conference Books |
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| Online Access: | http://bces-conference-books.org/onewebmedia/2017.086-092.Gillian.Hilton.pdf |
| Summary: | A recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO, 2016) has criticised the Department of Education’s organisation of Initial Teacher Training programmes in England as not providing value for money. This paper explores recent reports from government agencies, Parliament and the press on this issue. Further to this, leaders of various programmes for teacher training, including those run by a university, a School Centred Teacher Training organisation and a lead school in an Academy consortium, between them providing a wide variety of programmes, were questioned on the recent actions of the Department for Education and the National College for Teaching and Leadership with regard to how their actions have affected providing programmes for prospective teachers. The paper concludes that the NAO’s claim that the DfE is not providing value for money is correct and that in order to prevent further wastage a more measured and coherent approach to teacher training in England is required. |
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| ISSN: | 1314-4693 2534-8426 |