Three Ways to Make Teacher Education in England Even Better

As I hope will be clear from the title, this article does not assume a deficit model of teacher education. As even the government now acknowledge , the quality of initial teacher education in this country is high, whether it be delivered through HEI or SCITT partnerships. The results of OfSTED inspections and surveys of newly qualified teachers confirm this, with the vast majority of ITE provision rated by OFSTED as being either ‘good’ or ‘outstanding ’. Given the turbulence that it has faced in recent years, ITE providers (especially HEIs, which bore the brunt of the ideological assaults on the mythical ‘blob’ during Michael Gove’s tenure as Education Secretary), the sector deserves to be congratulated on what it has maintained and achieved.