Letters extra: those who live in glass houses ...

27th July 2001, 1:00am

How predictable that Alan Smithers should once more be invited to pass comment on initial teacher education. As an ex-colleague of the professor’s I recall his studied failure to make a single contribution to any of that institution’s teacher training programmes. A case of glass houses....or ivory towers?

Professor Philip Garner
Faculty of Education,
Nottingham Trent Universitynbsp;nbsp;nbsp;