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20 April 2026

Tag: Chartered College of Teaching

New chartered status for school-based teacher mentors

Teachers who also mentor school staff will be able to gain chartered status from next academic year, the Chartered College of Teaching has announced today.  The college says the move will give school-based mentors, such as those guiding early career teachers, a “real sense of professional recognition”. It follows greater emphasis on mentoring in the […]

Focus feature: Chartered College of Teaching

The Chartered College of Teaching marks its fifth anniversary this year, having launched with quite a few misgivings expressed by ministers and teaching unions. Chief executive Dame Alison Peacock tells Jess Staufenberg how her organisation is progressing in its aims When then-education secretary Nicky Morgan signed off on the Chartered College of Teaching on her […]

Chartered College ‘blueprint’ proposes national CPD quality badge

CPD should be quality assured under a national badge scheme to help schools and teachers choose the best provision, according to a new “blueprint” published by the Chartered College of Teaching (CCT). The report, published by the college today alongside a wider research group, would see providers assessed against nine criteria. Those who met the […]

Dame Alison Peacock: Don’t ‘guilt trip’ teachers into working over summer

Teachers must not be “guilt-tripped” into working on summer catch-up programmes run by schools, the head of the Chartered College of Teaching has said. Dame Alison Peacock said it would be “foolhardy” to expect teachers to “just take a few days off and then come back in again over the summer”, warning that “exhausted” teachers and […]

Three-in-four teachers feel they are less valued

Three quarters of teachers believe their work is less valued now than it was five years ago. According to a survey, run by YouGov on behalf of the Chartered College of Teaching, the majority of teachers also said they wouldn’t be likely to recommend the job as a career to youngsters. The findings come amid […]

One in five teachers fail Chartered College’s ‘C-teach’ tests

A fifth of teachers studying to be the first ever educators granted “chartered teacher status” have failed at least one part of the course so far – but they have eight strikes before they are out. The chartered teacher or “CTeach” programme, launched last September by the newly instituted Chartered College of Teaching (CCT), is […]