Teacher training

The latest news and analysis on how teachers are trained, including initial teacher training (ITT) – or initial teacher education (ITE) in Scotland – and the early career framework (ECF)

Wednesday

26th Nov 2025

Ofsted pauses NPQ inspections
Watchdog stops routine inspections of national professional qualifications for 2025-26, at education secretary Bridget Phillipson’s request
Ofsted pauses NPQ inspections

Wednesday

19th Nov 2025

Extra funding needed to overcome rural barriers to ITT
A lack of housing availability and poor public transport have limited teacher training to local residents in Cornwall, according to a report
A new report warns that teacher training in Cornwall is effectively limited to people who live there.
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Monday

17th Nov 2025

How ‘quality improvement groups’ can boost trust-wide CPD
With too many teachers reporting that CPD has no real impact on their practice, Zoe Enser explains how an enquiry-based approach is helping to join the dots
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Thursday

13th Nov 2025

How our trust helps teacher trainees stay the course
From an introductory phone call to a visit from the CEO, this trust has used a number of approaches to ensure trainees feel supported
How our trust helps teacher trainees stay the course

Wednesday

12th Nov 2025

Most science teachers say school lacks capacity for triple GCSE
The government has said that schools should ensure that any student who wishes to study triple science at GCSE can do so, but concerns have been raised over a lack of teachers
Majority of science teachers say school lacks capacity for triple GCSE
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Friday

7th Nov 2025

Embed diversity and antiracism into teacher training, DfE told
Teacher training providers also call on government to set up a national body for early career and trainee teachers
Embed diversity and anti-racism into teacher training, DfE told
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How to get instructional coaching right
Instructional coaching can be a powerful form of teacher CPD, write Gareth Conyard and Jim Knight – but only if lethal mutations are avoided
Instructional coaching for teachers: schools need to take care to get it right, say these experts

Thursday

6th Nov 2025

Triple science GCSE plan ‘ignores chronic teacher shortages’
Giving all GCSE students an entitlement to study triple science will force schools to make ‘compromises and substitutions’ without a major recruitment plan, warn subject experts
Triple science GCSE entitlement criticised for ignoring teacher shortages

Saturday

1st Nov 2025

Will the extra teachers go to the schools most in need?
The government has pledged to deliver thousands more teachers, but this will only help to close the disadvantage gap if we first address a fundamental imbalance in our system, writes the EEF’s Chris Paterson
Will the government's extra teachers go to disadvantaged schools?

Friday

31st Oct 2025

What Japan can tell us about teacher workforce planning
Japan’s ‘rigorous initial teacher education’ and its ‘structured approach to professional learning’ left an impression on the president of Scotland’s national body for education directors
What Japan can tell us about teacher workforce planning

Wednesday

22nd Oct 2025

Is ‘didagogy’ the key to better CPD for teachers?
The study of how teachers learn is unique enough to need its own terminology, finds a new report – and that has implications for how we understand teacher training and CPD
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Tuesday

21st Oct 2025

What if... mainstream was run on an alternative provision model?
As part of our thought experiment series, Phil Denton argues that pushing mainstream to adopt the mentality and structure of alternative provision would lead to far more success for more pupils
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