The Good Teacher Training Guide 2015

The Good Teacher Training Guide 2015, Alan Smithers and Mandy-Diana Coughlan, Buckingham: CEER, March 2016.

The Government intends to move to an increasingly school-led ITT system.  The latest CEER report provides the first quantitative evidence on how the two new School Direct routes are faring.

The short answer is rather well.  In particular, a much higher proportion of the trainees on school-led programmes took teaching posts, occupying the top 23 places in the ranking (Buckingham is the top university in 24^th spot).  Retention has long been a problem with half the trained teachers of working age not working in schools.

School-led training was also of higher quality as measured by inspection grades and ratings of recent trainees.  It was only on percentage of good degrees that the universities were ahead.

The recent White Paper also indicates that the Government wishes to identify the best providers to offer them greater certainty. GTTG15 shows how it could be done, by combining scores for entry qualifications, quality and taking teaching posts.

On that basis, the best provider this year is the North East Partnership SCITT in North Shields.  Second is the Billericay Educational Consortium, and third, the King Edward’s Consortium, Birmingham.  The top university is Cambridge in fourth place.

See also: Good Teacher Training Guide 2015