Author: Sophie Scott

New teachers should undertake a two-year “apprenticeship” before becoming fully qualified, academics suggest. Arguing for the move in a new pamphlet, to be launched next week, Dr Janet Orchard of the University of Bristol and Professor Christopher Winch of King’s College London, say it will give trainees from the university route time to “develop theoretical […]

The government has swiftly changed its policy for teacher recruitment as the cap on history trainees comes into force. Original rules, implemented from this year, brought in a blanket ban for recruitment onto university courses once providers had met a certain target – which is set at different levels for different subjects. However, in an […]

Universities are close to being told to stop recruiting trainee history teachers as they near the newly-imposed cap set by the government. Schools Week understands the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) has this afternoon emailed initial teacher training (ITT) providers to tell them places are currently at 75 per cent capacity. It comes […]

Universities have already been told to stop recruiting trainee PE teachers for next year after reaching a newly-imposed cap level after just one month. Under new rules school and university teacher training providers will be able to recruit as many trainees as they wish until a national limit is met. The government push for more […]

A teenager is in a critical condition in hospital after a stabbing at a school in London. The Metropolitan Police were called to Kingsdale Foundation School in Alleyn Park, Dulwich, yesterday at 3.30pm. The force said two boys, both 15, were discovered suffering knife wounds. They were both taken to hospital, where one is in […]

A teaching union has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the impact of workload on education staff – as it revealed four in five staff have considered quitting because of their workload. The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) this morning released a survey of more than 2,200 teachers, senior leaders and support staff […]

The Department for Education this morning released provisional figures for the number of trainee teachers recruited for this academic year. More than 28,000 people started a postgraduate course in initial teacher training (ITT) this year. This is up from 25,753 last year. Recruitment to ITT courses was at 94 per cent overall. For the first […]

Sir Michael Wilshaw has today announced that Ofsted will launch an inquiry into the effectiveness of governors. In the second of his new monthly commentaries, the chief inspector revealed that Ofsted drafted in “outside experts” to carry out “urgent” external reviews of governance in over 500 schools last year. He said: “The role is so […]

In the face of increasing costs and flat budgets, one school has taken an “unprecedented step” of consulting parents on giving regular cash contributions to its running costs. Tadcaster Grammar School, a secondary and sixth form in north Yorkshire, wrote to parents claiming “financial constraints will inevitably” affect its ability to maintain its current service. […]