What is school leaders’ experience of the quality of recruits
from school based initial teacher training?
The National Audit Office reports to
Parliament on the use of resources by central government and
related bodies, for example the Training and Development Agency for
Schools. We have just begun a value for money study on school
based initial teacher training, and plan to publish a report in
spring 2012.
Our report will focus on whether the
Department for Education has maximised the cost effectiveness of
school-based teacher training. In particular, we are interested in
how well newly qualified teachers entering schools from the
Graduate Training Programme, Teach First and School-centred Initial
Teacher Training have performed in their early careers.
We would welcome insight into your experience
of the qualified teachers produced by each of the school based
routes, in comparison with each other and the higher-education led
routes (PGCE and Bachelors’ with QTS). You can click below
for a list of questions and issues upon which we would like your
thoughts, which you can provide in free text format:
School based initial
teacher training: questions and issues
Thank you
Angela Hands
Director, Education Value for Money
team